Odell Moves to Take Control in GOP Convention Test Vote
The Washington Post reports a narrow Odell lead in a test vote for temporary chairman of the New York State Republican convention. Jacob A Livingston switched to Odell, altering the result to 19 to 18 in favor of Odell. The meeting, held in New York, featured talk of harmony as Odell aims to delay Higgins renomination and to push his faction’s plans.
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Woodruff
Kings County
Odell
Higgins
Washington Post
New York
Saraoya
Wiggins
M Linn Bruce
Friends
Gov Higgins
Jacob A Livingston
Platt
Odell Shouder
Julius Gov Byhco
Comen
Higgins Campagn
George A Aldridge
Bruce
Odel
Aldridge
Mr Bruce
Lemuel Ely Quigg
Chares H Balls Af Lavon
John Raines
Odolt
Guy Higgins
Francia Hendricks
Gus Brue
Votte
Saratoga
Brooklyn
Gev Mlinn Bruce
Republican State convention names 1924 ticket and leaders
El Paso August 15 The Republican State convention reelects Cecil Lyon Sherman as State chairman and nominates the 1924 ticket for governor lieutenant governor attorney general comptroller treasurer general of land office and railroad commissioner with a platform condemning Democratic waste extravagance and nepotism and praising the Roosevelt administration and Texas congressmen for backing Republican aid to Texas.
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Tex
Cecil Lyon
Sherman
Ornor
Fannin County
Pederich Hofheins
Dallas
F van Dervoort
Carrizo Springs
Court of Criminal Appeals
Foster
Roosevelt
Texas
Nebraska Banker Declines Congressional Nomination
Aug 15 in Lincoln the First District Democratic Convention nominated T J Doyle of Lincoln for Congress after H W Hanks of Nebraska City declined the nomination. Hanks had earlier served on the resolutions committee and learned of the nomination before refusing it. Doyle had previously withdrawn in Hanks’s favor.
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T J Doyle
Lincoln
Nebr
H WN Hanks
Nebraska City
Congress
Hanks
Doyle
Bargain Day Rush Follows Police Ordered Closure
In St Joseph Missouri on August 15 a department store bargain rush led to chaos. Mrs Gusan Woland was fatally injured and many shoppers were hurt before ten officers on duty controlled the crowd. The police chief initially closed the store but reopened it when order was restored. Several women fainted from heat but returned home without medical care.
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St Joseph
Gusan Woland
Weiland
Five Injured In A Derailment On Local Line
A southbound mixed train on the Franklin and Pitts ylvania line derailed near Redwood early today causing minor injuries to five people. Three of the injured were passengers none seriously hurt while the conductor mail agent and two others also sustained injuries. All were taken to Rocky Mount for treatment. The cause of the accident is not yet known. Redwood is the mile from Rocky Mount, the branch line terminus.
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Danville
Franklin and
Pittsylvania
Southern Raiway
Redwood
Ribrer
Rocky Mount
Dempsey Forces Control of Delegates in Cincinnati Gridlock
In Cincinnati, county Democratic convention factions clashed over party machinery. Bernard faction led by Bernard and C J Noble failed to unseat Mayor Edward Dempsey’s administration, as John J Molloy narrowly won the chair vote and administration delegates prevailed.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Edward Dempsey
George B Cox Lewis
Bernard Long
Democracy
Iine
Dempsey
Bernard
C J Noble
Eiven
Lmne
Bernards
Terrorists Riot in Poland Massacres Hit Warsaw and Cities
Warsaw and other Polish cities faced coordinated attacks by revolutionists using bombs and revolvers. At least 11 killed include police, soldiers, a Hebrew merchant and a woman. several wounded in Warsaw Lodz Radom Vlatslossk Plock and other locales. Authorities captured the band in Choladena street as infantry dragoons and Cossacks restored order after a morning assault on police stations and public spaces.
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Poland
Samara Afa Yalta
Kiev
Chita
Gorpvichenko
Warsaw
Wolsh Precinct
Lodz
Radom
Cantain
Vlatslossk
Plock
Praga
Ostrovebovin Street
Torgovia
Fear to Call Recruits Delays Government Draft
Special dispatch from St Petersburg reports that calling recruits in autumn risks government danger, leading to a November postponement. About 470,000 recruits are enrolled, with a large portion likely unreliable against the people amid famine, looting, and strikes. Reports cite troop disloyalty and scuffles at Krasnoy Selo, with rifles used by sharpshooters and earlier ambushes.
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Washington Post
St Petersburg
South Russa
Nicholas
Krasnoy2-Selo
Krasnoye
Girl Whipped by Guards After Taunt in St Petersburg
Intense public outcry follows the brutal punishment of Mile Smirnoff a refined young woman who mocked Russian guards as gay after a squadron charged wounding and lacerating her back. She was forced into a cab and later whipped twenty seven times in the guards barracks amid officers present.
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Mie Smirnoff
Chevalier Guards
Nevski
Mile Smirnoff
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Mic Smirnoff
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Cit Yard
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Nelka de Smirnoffs
Washington
Red Cross
Belmont
A L Barber
Fourteenth
Clifton Streets
Mie de Smirnof
Miss Blow
Wadsworth
Mme
Paveloff
Belgium
Martha Hoy
Rojestvensk
China
Woman flees Oyster Bay amid sanity inquiry
Isabel Case, daughter of Simeon Case of Haverhill Mass, fled Oyster Bay before a sanity hearing linked to her pursuit of President and Mrs Roosevelt. Relatives believe she is the mysterious Miss Sac who sought clemency for John Mutch, a farmer jailed for a prior crime.
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Long Island
Asi L Bsac
Hizabeth Case
Mindole
Roosevelt
New York
Haverhil
Mass
Isabel Case
Simeon Case
Hélieva
Hsac
John Mutch
Haverhill
Miss Case
March
Ins
Migs Case
One Dead in Buffalo Fire at Lake Front
A blaze at the foot of Main Street near the water front in Buffalo resulted in the death of Captain James Robinson a veteran lake master and fatally injured sailor Charles Johnson with many others escaping narrow blasts of flames. The fire started on the top floor of 11 13 Maine Street home to Buffalo Ship Chandlery and Supply Co possibly from an explosion. Johnson alerted others then perished as escape routes failed. The St Charles Hotel at 9 Main Street suffered some damage but was saved from major destruction. Loss estimated at seventy five thousand dollars with several people left with injuries and scares.
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James Robinson
Charles Johnson
Main Street
Maine Street
Buffalo Ship Chandlery and Supply Company
Johnson
Robinson
St Charles
Washington
Martin
Maj Webster
Raceury
Mfart
Fk Auatter
Tak
Thomas H Martin
Hia
T Street
Minneapolis
Entriken
A. R
the Blue
Bull Run
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Center County
Pennsylvania Volunteers
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Iulan
Mr Martin
Treasury
Pennsylvania
Nancy J Kinc
Edwin A. Martin
War Department
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Orlando
Nina L Maynard
Mildred Martin
Nina Maynard
Edwin Martin
GARL
Hamline
Hamiline
Benjardin F Graham
Kit Carson
Fost
Grand Army Hall
At & Oclock
Funch Services
Pickpockets Caught After Chase Near Police HQ
Two skilled pickpockets named Salvatore Audette and Frank Knapp were captured after robbing a man on Houston Street. They were taken to Mulberry Street station, admitting their notoriety to police. One boasted of stealing watches from detectives, while the other claimed he would aim higher.
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Ang
Houston Street
Mott
Houston
Mulberry Street
Salvatore Audette
Frank Knapp
Virginia Mountains
White Sulphur Hot Springs
Seoule
Sullivan Replies to Bryan on National Committee Seat
Democratic National Committeeman Roger C Sullivan of Illinois releases an open letter from Chicago stating his election to the national committee is conferred by a higher authority. He accuses William J Bryan of trying to stir faction and asserts the Illinois delegation and convention upheld his seat, while naming Dunlap and Thompson as behind the demand for his resignation.
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Chicago
Democratic National
National Committee
Sullivan
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Thompson
Mir Bryan
Millard Fillmore Dunlap
Owen P Thompson
Jacksonville
Extradition Sought for Treasurer Cann in Shortage Case
Authorities pursue William Cann treasurer of the Benevolent Society of Postal Employer after he fled to the United States with a 54000 shortage. He was later located in Texas in April but his current whereabouts remain unknown as of August 13. Local notices mention Libbey & Co offering dressed boards at 92.40 per 100 feet.
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Jondon
William Cann
Benevolent Society of Postal
United States
Cann
Texas
Lwuber Trust
Libbey & Co
Sth
N, Y, Ave
Armed Revolt in Persia Amid Reform Talks
Telegram from St Petersburg reports Persian reform parts gaining tentative Shah approval after a revolutionary clash. Troops killed many. censor may have blocked full telegraph details. The message notes sweeping regime changes and the Shah’s cautious consent following violent clashes.
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St Petersburg
Persia
Bryan's Train Delayed Deliberate Change of Plans Near Porréres
The train carrying William J Bryan and his party from Paris to Madrid was delayed for about thirty minutes near Porrères after a slight accident. He may abandon plans to visit Grenada and instead head to Tangier, spending only a few hours in Madrid on Thursday.
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Madrid
Paris
William J Bryan
Bordeaux
Porreres
Bryan
Grenada
Tangier
Kaiser greets king hold conference at castle in luxemburg
King Edward arrives by special train from Frankfurt and meets Emperor William and Prince Frederick Charles at Friedrichshof. They tour Hamburg and Saaburg, share a cordial dinner and concert, then discuss wide political questions while British officials note hopes for improved Anglo German relations.
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Prussia
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Hang
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Frederick E G Ponsonby
Frank Lascelles
Germany
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Winch
Greece
Georg Michailovich
Luuncheon
Baron von Tschersthcky
Darmstadt
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Ambessader Lascellanes
Yschirschhy
Berlin
Lokal
Angseger
Luxemburg
All Seasons
William
Hum
Cologne
Great Britain
Wiech
Cologne Gazette
National Zeitung
Neuste Nachtien
Two Civil War veterans die after parade heat in Washington
Thomas H Martin senior vice department commander of the Potomac district collapses from heat and heart trouble in Minneapolis after marching with Grand Army of the Republic veterans in New Orleans and Washington. Col Charles W Keeting of New Orleans, former Louisiana Mississippi department head, also dies after leading a parade.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Thomas H Martin
Washington
Charles W Keeting
New Orleans
Department of Louisiana
Missianipi
Keeting
Customs Department
Menthel
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