Gortel yout Outlook Pleased As Campaign Opens
Republican National Chairman Cortelyou, arriving from the West via Canton, Ohio, met with President Roosevelt and discussed the Chicago campaign headquarters setup and Western state politics. He declined to speak for publication on campaign details while praising the general plan and the executive committee’s reception. Cortelyou will travel to New York to finalize duties. an eastern speaker’s bureau and advisory committee are to be formed, with names to be announced in coming days.
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Cortelyou
West
Canton
Ohio
Mrs McKinley
Roosevelt
Chicago
Cartaiyou
Cartelyou
National Executive Committee
Haructer
Washington
New York
Scott
West Viesinet
Notice on free simultaneous wedding and death insertions
Public notice states marriages and deaths in The Washington Post will, on request, be published in multiple morning newspapers with no extra charge for insertion or telegraphing. Newspapers listed include New York Times, Baltimore Herald, Boston Globe, Buffalo Courier, Cincinnati Enquirer, Chicago Record-Herald, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Pittsburg Dispatch, Providence Journal, Rochester Herald, St Louis Republic, and more.
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NEW York Times
Baltimore Herald
Boston Globe
Buffalo Courier
Cincinnati Enquirer
Chicago Record-Herald
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Pittsburg Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
ST Louis Republic
Ese Standard
EER Press
Eapglis Tribune
Cleveland Plain Dealer
LICENSED TO MARRY IN MULTIPLE DISTRICTS
A wartime era marriage notice lists multiple couples from Bristow Herndon Richmond and Chicago with details of dates and locations. Obituaries and funeral notices mention apoplexy at Well Havewell Wall Thousand Islands and a Browning family death in Riverdale Maryland.
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Havewell Wall
Thousand Islands
William
Browning
New York
St. Bartholomew's Church
Madison Avenue
Forty-fourth Street
Greenwood Cemetery
Riverdale
Har
Street Northwest
Virginia
Georgy M
William Brin
Torie
Hasteings
Baward
Allington
Williams
Turd Street
Georges
Eliza Wille
Vintent de Paul's Jr
In Memoriam and Obituary Notices
In loving remembrance of John, two years since death, and list of residents in various hospitals and homes with ages from newborn to 86. Names include Bonasentate, Campbell, Edwin A. Clifford, Isaac Newton Davis, Biable Dean, Thomas Ford, Jota Blair Haas, Charles Haydon, Catherine Huhe, Lucy F Johnson, Mary D. Jones, Mary J Kenpey, John Kyle, Mary Mahoney, Charles Rogers, Nathan Thomas, with locations at Wash Asyl Hosp, Yale St, Sibley Hosp, Providence Hosp, and addresses in Washington.
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Little Sisters
Qatavio Campbell
Edwin A. Clifford
Yale St
Isaac Newton Davis
Sibley
Providence
Thomas Ford
Asyl
Jota Blair Haas
Q St. Ow
Charles Haydon
Hosp
Catherine Huhe
R St
Lucy F Johnson
Patterson At
Mary D. Jones
Mary J Kenpey
U St
Jine W Kyle
John Marshel
Mary Mahoney
Asyi
Charles Rogers
Ava
Nathan Thomas
Browns
Campaign plans and talks before Cortelyou departure
The passage notes that the membership may include up to thirty men and that before leaving for New York Mr. Cortelyou will hold another conference with the President and meet other party leaders and officials to discuss campaign matters.
Jackson Renominated at Maryland Republican Convention
William Jackson was renominated by acclamation at the First District Republican convention in Ocean City Maryland with no African American delegates in the delegation and only four in the audience. State Senator Henry M McCullough chaired the meeting and was praised for the legislature’s work while Jackson was described as a man of action and friend of labor. Robert R Walker was chosen as Presidential elector candidate in place of Isaac A Barber.
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Washington Post
Ocean City
William Jackson
Adlai P. Barnes
State Central Committee
Worcester County
Henry M. McCullough
Cecil County
William R. Reese
Somerset
Jackson
Elmer H. Walton
Wicomico County
A. L. Dryden
Republican State Central Committee
Robert R. Walker
Easton
Isaac A. Barber
Tom Horner
Lewis
W. G Bennett
Esopus
William R. Thompson
George G. McComas
Cabell
Jefferson
Charleston
Mason
Slidell
Providence
Judge Parker
Hudson
Bennett
Kincaid
Marshall
Bank Good
C. Wood Dailey
Elkins
Davis
Dailey
Thompson
Cornwell
Nominated for Congress in Multiple Districts
Nominated figures across states include Finis Garrett in Tennessee Ninth district over Rice A. Pierce, Thetas W. Sims over J. W. Lewis in the Eighth, Judge Edward Higbe nominated by Republicans in the First district of Missouri, Clyde Jones nominated by Democrats in Indiana Ninth, and Judge M. L. F. Smyser nominated by Republicans in Ohio Seventeenth. The St Joseph convention adjourned amid an August 18 deadline with a deadlock still unresolved.
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Nashville
Tenn
Finis Garrett
Rice A. Pierce
Thetas W. Sims
J. W. Lewis
St. Joseph
Hannibal, Mo
Edward Higbe
Lancaster
Schuyler County
Frankfort
Ind
Clyde Jones
Crawfordsville
New Philadelphia
Ohio
M. L. F. Smyser
Wooster
Kansas fusion ticket named for governor and state offices
In Topeka the Democratic and Populist state conventions adjourned after fusing for the state campaign and nominating a joint ticket led by Governor candidate David M. Dale. The slate includes M. A. Householder lieutenant governor and John J. Curran secretary of state, with a mix of Populist and Democrat choices for other statewide posts. The alliances may affect the railroad commissioner race as J. W. Robinson, Republican, receives allied support.
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Topeka
Kans
David M. Dale
M. A. Householder
Johnn H. Curran
Supreme Court
John T. Little
H. Allen
Nicholson
Council Grove
Treasuran
Thomas M. Dowan
W. FH. McDonald
Publi
Martin R. Howard
W. W. Wells
John Stowell
Brady
F. H. Chase
J. W. Robinson
Representative Hall
Judge Waterbury
Emporia
Albert Griffin
Manhattan
Death of Capt. R. A. Davis in Richmond Home
Capt. R. H. Davis died at the Soldiers' Home in Richmond yesterday after leaving Clifton Forge a month ago. A Confederate veteran, he served as a railroad man and long a conductor on the Chesapeake and Ohio. He was a prominent Mason and a leading local businessman in this place, leaving two children.
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Washington
Clifton Forge
R. H. Davis
Richmond
Davis
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Debauchery of Ballot and White Supremacy Pledge Rally
A West Virginia party convention denounces Republican excesses and corruption in elections and calls for honest voting. The platform supports universal, equal taxation, a new constitutional convention, and strict suffrage for citizens, while denouncing poll taxes and legislative excess. A white supremacist plank was proposed and voted down amid fiery debate, with John Cornwall and Bennett as leading gubernatorial nominees.
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Billy
Democratic Party
George E. Byrne
Kanawha
Lily White
Cornwell Wins West Virginia Democratic Nomination Rally
The Kanawha convention shifts support to Cornwell as Thompson weakens. Delegates parade Hampshire banners, several votes switch, and Cornwell leads 658 to 258 with Bennett at 54. Speakers pledge reform, tax equity, and unity, while the party names Peterkin for secretary of state and Raumann for attorney general. The convention adjourns after midnight with Parker and Davis electoral pledges.
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Bennett
Cornwell
Thompson
Hampshire
John B. White
United
Kanawha
Cabell
Greenbrier
William G. Peterkin
Andrew Jackson Wilkinson
Grafton
Stuart Walker
Martinsburg
Peterkin
Wiliam L. Mansfield
Wayne
B. H. Oxley
Washington
Mansfield
John T. McGraw
Guyandotte
E. H. Fitch
Fitch
Census Bureau
Roosevelt
M. D. Helmick
Pleasant County
Joseph Rosier
Marion County
Helmick
Lawrence A. Raumann
Wheeling
John J. Carniff
Raymann
Ohio County
Carniff
West Virginia
Anton Raymann
Robert 8. Carr
Charleston
Kanawha County
Bob
George W. Cargill
McGraw
Judge Parker
Davis
R. F. Kidd
Parker
Esopus
Davia
Resolutions Committee
John J. Davis
H W. Dent
Supreme Court of Appeals
Dent
Democrats
Henry E Gilmer
Col. R. P. Chew
Jefferson
Lewis Bennett
Weston
West Virginia tax bills reform eyed before enactment
Charleston Aug 4 The three day adjournment of the special session due to Delegate Trumbo’s death and Democratic convention travel has sharpened majority aims. The Republican taxation and finance committee meets to overhaul pending measures. Focus centers on the general Meenge tax and a tax commissioner bill amid opposition from Anti Saloan League and others to higher licenses for taverns and breweries.
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Washington Post
Charleston
W. Va
Trumbo
Parkersburg
Committee On Taxation and Finance
Wellington may be invited to speak at Baltimore GOP rally
Special to The Washington Post from Baltimore Maryland August 4 1900 Former Senator Wellington likely to be invited by Baltimore Republican leaders to speak at a Roosevelt and Fairbanks ratification meeting and later campaign in the state He is seen as a potential influence in Western Maryland and may address German American Republicans in East Baltimore If he speaks it could lead to a larger gathering and solidify his role in the party despite limited recent national activity
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Washington P
Baltimore
Wellington
Fairbanks
Maryland
Broadway Institute
Bryan
McKinley
Campaign to Open in Two Virginias Rally Invites Williams to Richmond
Enthusiasm grows for the August 17 notification meeting at White Springs to announce Henry Davis as the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee. Col. Joseph Button leads trip logistics with hundreds expected. the old Presidents Cottage will host the nominee at the Old White. John Sharp Williams may speak in Richmond to open the campaign, with John Goode attending. scheduling may clash with Tamestown exposition talks in Georgia.
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Washipaton
Richmond
Old White Springs
Henry
Davis
Virginias
Joseph Button
State Senate
United States
Old White
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Springs
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
John Goode
Georgia
Annexation costs and benefits cited by Hawaiian governor
Gov G C Carter says annexation is not a commercial success for Hawaii noting five year land leases hurt crop profits and harbor dredging lags. He cites over 6.25 million paid to U S Treasury and total annexation cost at 4 000 while harbor works run short. Also reports an unrelated Greenville S C suicide as Judge D P Verner shoots himself.
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Sacramento
Cal
G. C. Carter
Hawaiian Islands
United States
Congress
Uncle Sam
Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription Endorsed By Ontario Mother
Mrs. Wesley Guy of Kemptville Ontario explains the cost of maternity and credits Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription with relief after years of pain. The ad warns against substitutes and notes the product contains no alcohol or opiates. It mentions Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for bowel regulation.
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Wesley Guy
Kemptville
Ont
Bors
Erce
Yierce
Philippine Day at Exposition and Pure Food Law Push
National Jobbers Association pushes Congress for a national pure food law with subordinate groups urged to contact lawmakers. Observances planned for August 13 featuring Taft and possibly Dewey Chaffee Merritt and Otis. Also reports officer elections for Confectioners and Salesmen groups and Apple Shippers set next meeting at Put-in-Bay Ohio.
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National Confectioners’ Jobbers’ Association
Exposition
St. Louis
Theodore, Jr
Kermit
Roosevelt
Phillip Roosevelt
Alexander Russell
Washington
Pennsylvania
New York
Philippine Islands
United States
Taft
Admiral Dewey
Chaffee
Wesley Merritt
Otis
National
D. L. Morgan
Scranton
Confectioners’ Association
House of Representatives
E. O. Reed
Chicago
L. A. Bernhard
J. L. Swart
Newark
N. Dasweetary
D. E. Alearn
Pittsburg
J. Martin Miller
Philadelphia
National Confectionery Salesman Association
E. G. Staley
Baltimore
Herbert A. Dodge
James A. Greaves
New York City
William C. Bidlock
Cincinnati
William BR. Moffitt
W. E. Barker
W. H. McDowell
International Apple Shippers’ Convention
John T. Stimason
R. J. Graham
Belleville
Ontario
C. H. Weaver
Bellevite
A. Warren Patch
Boston
W. L. Wagner
Put-in-Bay
Ohio
Lyons Hanged for Murder in Paterson Jail
John Lyons was hanged in Paterson New Jersey's county jail for the murder of aged watchman John Christian. Lyons and William Allen robbed a silk mill four years earlier. Allen received a thirty year sentence.
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Paterson
N. J
John Lyons
John Christian
Lyons
William Allen
Pitney
Morristown
Firat
Justice Pitney
Suspect Proves Alibi In Portage Hold-up
Johnstown Pa August 4 Gaetaino Giampoli cleared after Columbia Plate Glass chief confirms he was at work in Blairsville Saturday. Pittsburgh August 4 suspects under surveillance believed not connected to the Payslmaster Campbell hold-up as $2600 deposited in an Italian bank is compared to stolen bills and found dissimilar.
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Portage
Johnstown
Gaetaino Giampoli
Altoona
Campbell
Hays
Columbia Plate Glass Company
Biairaville
Pittsbuts
Lmaster Campbell
Italan
Auto Hits Train Injuring Four in Harrisburg Ohio
A 70 horsepower auto owned by R B Scott of Baltimore collided with a Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton express at Harrisburg Ohio. Four men were in the car Gus Behrens severely bruised EK B Wasson Charles Benner and Charles S Scott were injured the car demolished. Separately eight operators at the Missouri Kansas and Texas lines quit work in sympathy with a strike at St Louis terminal.
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Toledo
Ohio
R. B. Scott
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Hamilton
Dayton
Harrisburg
EK. B. Wasson
Gus Behrens
Charles Benner
Cleveland
Charles S. Scott
Cadiz
Lngine
Behrens
St. Louis
Bt ‘Laws Terminal Association
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Russians on Port Arthur Driv en to Last Line of Defenses
Aug 4 Port Arthur's Russian troops have been squeezed back to their final defensive line as Japanese artillery presses the siege. Tokyo watches with keen interest as 350 Japanese guns prepare for a decisive assault, hoping to force the fleet from the harbor and end the long war with minimal casualties. The Emperor is said to seek victory with the least loss of life, guiding tactics to silence Russian guns before a final infantry push.
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Niuchwang
Port Arthur
Tokyo
Togo
Retreat Part Of Plan German Say Russians Hand
German correspondents describe the Russian retreat at Liaoyang as part of a preconcerted plan. They claim the Japanese advance is aiding Russian concentration for a major battle. The dispatch notes that abandoning ports serves to concentrate forces near Liaoyang for a decisive clash.
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Lord Times
Washington Pits
Berlin
Liaoyang
Reopens Fiscal Campaign by Chamberlain at Welbeck Abbey
London reports Joseph Chamberlain reopened the fiscal campaign addressing a crowd of about ten thousand to twelve thousand from agricultural counties at Welbeck Abbey near Worksop. He argued grandfatherly misery came from unemployment, urged policies to boost employment and wages, and proposed import duties on wheat and flour to keep milling in Britain, plus duties on other grains and 5 percent on meat dairy products and produce.
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London
Joseph Chamberlain
Welbeck Abbey
Duke of Portland
Worksop
Nottinghamshire
Relief Expedition Fails In Arctic Venture Return
Copenhagen reports the Zeigler relief expedition aboard the Frithjof reached Varda Norway on July 3 while returning from the north. Ice and fog prevented a passage to America. the Frithjof will sail north again with coal for the America. The America departed Trondhjem for Franz Josef Land on June 23, 1903.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Zeigler
Varda
Norway
Frithjof
America
Trondhjem
Franz Josef Land
Alaskan Boundary Survey Two Special Commissioners Join Work
Vancouver Aug 4 Two boundary commissioners from Canada and the United States travel toward the north to inspect survey parties fixing the Alaska Canada boundary. G H Titman of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey heads the American delegation with Canada’s W F King chief astronomer. The pair plan to stay two months and the survey isn’t expected to finish until next season.
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Vancouver
BH. C
Canada
Alaska
United States
G. H. Titman
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
W. F. King
North
Forest fires devastate towns around Kahispeil Montana
Flames from fourteen fires rage near Kahispeil and Whitefish along the Great Northern Railroad. Entire communities including Woaltefish and Columbia Falls face isolation, homes and churches are burned, and pine forests near Dayton Creek may be ruined. Smoke blankets the region as Forest Supervisor Haines and crews fight the fires, hoping for rain or reinforcements.
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Kahispeil
Mont
Great Northern
Woaltefish
Columbia Falls
Whitefish
Dayton Creek
Haines
Here
Death on fishing trip near Annapolis Bar
In Halifax N S Aug 4 seven of eight aboard a small tender from a stranded yacht drowned off Bear Island when the craft capsized. Only Vedito of Bear River survived. Victims include George Leach a woolen mill manager of Nasonville Rhode Island Capt Charles Hersey Digby Mrs Vedito Digby Mrs O Reilly age 40 of New York and her thirteen year old son and a daughter. Location given as Annapoli Bar near Bear Island.
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Halifax
Vedito
Bear River
George Leach
Nasonville
R. I
Charles Hersey
Digby
Veidito
O'Reilly
New York
Annapoli Bar
Bear Island
Death notices and obituaries across several cities
Washington Cann August 4 Dr Orlando Brown brigadier general and noted physician of Litchfield County dead at 77 after months of illness. He served as assistant surgeon Eighteenth Massachusetts Volunteers in 1801 and helped found the bureau of Refuge and Freedom with Generals Thomas Howard and Swayne. Asbury Park New Jersey August 4 Edward Van Buren Hoes, descendant of Martin Van Buren, dies at 55. body to be cremated in Philadelphia. Columbus Wisconsin August 4 Former Governor James T Lewis dies at 83 from a second stroke. New London Connecticut August 4 Robert Grannell Minor, painter and artist, dies at 65 in Waterford. Sydney Australia Aug 4 Sir George Richard Dibbs, former premier of New South Wales, dies. Berlin August 4 Dr Ernest Jedlizka, pianist and teacher, deceased. well known to Americans.
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Washington, Cann
Orlando Brown
United States Army
Litchfield County
Eighteenth
Massachusetts Volunteers
Newport News
James River
Twenty-fourth Regiment
United States Colored Troops
Thomas, Howard
Swayne
Bureau of Refuge and Freedom
Asbury Park
N. J
Edward . van Buren Hoes
Martin van Buren
United States
New London
Conn
Robert Grannell Minor
America
Europe
Waterford
New York City
Sydney
New South Wales
George Richard Dibbs
Berlin
Ernest Jedlizka
Jie
Torpedo-Boat Sortie and Port Arthur Actions
Russian flotilla sorties from Port Arthur are repelled by Japanese ships guarding the harbor. Twelve torpedo boat destroyers and four torpedo boats attempted to exit on the night of August but were forced back. Also reports on ocean steamship movements with arrivals and sailings in New York Liverpool Hamburg and Queenstown during early August.
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Port Arthur
Tokyo
New York
Patricix
Hamburg
Deutschland
Plymouth
Cherbourg
la Champagne
Havre
Liverpool
Avrania
Graf Woeldersas
Dover
Queenstows
Majestic
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Spout Spring
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Jesse Juan
Corn Dent
Clinton S. Dean
Anna BD. Long
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Qiner Shu
Taton
John
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Pa. Ave
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Tenth Street
Ae William Lee
Liveryn Connection
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Eemer
Capitol St
Newepaper
Tennessee
Kansas Fusion
Holt
Houston
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Ine Holt
Eighth Congressional District
John M. Pinckney
Charlotte
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Indianapolis
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Union, County
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Unionville Center
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National Committee
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First Pagh
Henry A. Davia
Republican Party
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