Third Party Waiting Prefers a Third Ticket at Indianapolis
The first day of the National party convention in Indianapolis focused on addresses with no formal action. Osborne outlined a platform opposing imperialism and endorsing sound money and civil service reform. Delegates backed a possible third ticket with anti-imperialists, while McKinley Bryan opposition lingered. The convention adjourned awaiting the chairman's call.
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Indianapolis
MocKinley
Bryan
Osborne
Commercial Club
Goome
Thomas M. Osborne
Auburn
New York
National Party
Lincoln
Sumner
Chase
MeKinley
Platt
Hanna
Tilden
Cleveland
Russell
Altgeld
Tillman
Louis R. Ehrich
Colorado Springs
Colo
Ehrich
Francis P. Nash
Geneva
N. Y
John Jay Chapman
Chapman
Republican Advisors Named for National Committee
New York Aug 15 Senator Hanna announced the advisory committee of the Republican national committee listing Senators Platt and Depew and many state leaders from New York Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois Nebraska Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island Minnesota California Missouri and other states. Additional appointments will be made.
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New York
Republican National Committee
National Committee
Platt
Depew
William L. Strong
Samuel J. Wainwright
W. W. Gibbs
Pennsylvania
Myron T. Herrick
B. W. Arnett
Ohio
Alex, Revell
B. Raymond
Cyrus Field Adams
Illinois
Bryan’s Chicago Conference Ties With Altgeld and Campaign
William J. Bryan met Monday with John P. Altgeld in Chicago regarding the campaign. Altgeld will endorse the Democratic ticket and speak in several states. Bryan also spoke via talking machine in Indianapolis remarks calling for an extra session to recall troops from the Philippines. He will depart Lincoln tonight after Irish rally.
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Chicago
William J. Bryan
John P. Altgeld
Altgeld
Democratc
Bryan
Talking Machine
Indianapolis
Congress
Philippines
Lincoln
Leopold Moss
J. S. Jones
Democratic National Committee
Populist National Committee Opens Chicago Headquarters
Populist headquarters opened in the Auditorium Chicago on the floor above the Democratic committee with Eugene Smith in charge. The Populists set their main HQ in Lincoln Nebraska.
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Populista
Chicago
Populist National Committee
Democratic Committee
Eugene Smith
Populists
Lincoln
Neb
Collis P. Huntington Dies at Pine Knot Camp
Collis P. Huntington, aged about 74, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, died of heart disease at his Adirondack camp Pine Knot after a sudden choking attack. He built the Central Pacific with Leland Stanford and later led Southern Pacific. wealth estimated between 40 and 50 million dollars.
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Raquette Lake
C. P. Huntington
Southern Pacific Railroads Company
Pine Knot
Adirondacks
Lounsberry
Huntington
G. I. Miles
Collis P. Huntington
Samuel Huntington
New York
California
Nevada
Leland Stanford
Central Pacific Railroad
Southern Pacific
Young Bryans Close Call Saved by Gen Wheeler
In Chicago on August 15 Liberty banner reports William Jennings Bryan Jr the 12 year old son of the presidential candidate narrowly escaped a fall from an office window at General Wheelers headquarters The boy attached rubber bands to a chair caster and dangled seventy five feet to the sidewalk before Wheeler restrained him Also notesier items from Pinckney and Davenport include lamp stones and a sensational divorce case in Davenport society
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Wheeler
Chicago
William Jennings Bryan, Jr
Army Headquarters
Pullman
General Wheeler
Campaign Opens with Murder in Shelbyville
In Shelbyville Indiana on August 15 a campaign kickoff led to a fight between 70 plus men William Thurman Republican and Miles Griffey Democrat. Griffey was stabbed in the side and killed while Thurman was struck with a cane and severely injured.
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Shelbyville
Ind
William Thurman
Miles Griffey
Griffey
Thurman
Death of Special Agent John M Morton on St Paul Island
Secretary Gage received a telegram announcing the death on July 15 of Special Agent John M Morton on St Paul Island in the Bering Sea. Morton was a son of former Indiana Governor Oliver P Morton and was buried on the island. The report also notes Rural Free Delivery expansion in several towns including Nichols Marcus Cennisville Clear Lake Lyons in Indiana and additional service at Williamston Michigan.
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Washington
Gage
St. Paul Island
Bering Sea
John M. Morton
Oliver P. Morton
Indiana
Post Office Department
Nichols
Marcus
Cennisville
Clear Lake
Lyons
Williamston
Mich
President McKinley Alters Washington Trip Plan
President McKinley changed his travel plans yesterday morning and the party departed today at 1 35 p.m. from Canton Ohio for Washington. No emergency prompted the adjustment.
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Washington
Canton
McKinley
Wisconsin Wheelman Dies in Milwaukee
Trank B. Van Valkenburgh, prominent cyclist and former chief consul of the Wisconsin division, League of American Wheelmen, died suddenly Monday in Milwaukee, reportedly from a hemorrhage of the drain.
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Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Charley Joram Hurt While Boarding Freight Train
Cobden Wisconsin August 15 Charley Joram a 12 year old sustained serious injuries while attempting to board an Hanols Central freight train His right knee was nearly severed below the joint and he suffered additional bruises and hurts.
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Cobden
Charley Joram
Hanoels Central
Robbery Reported in Salina Involving Va. Man
H. S. Colby of Lost Junction Virginia complains to Salina police that he was robbed of 3440 dollars on Saturday night while en route to Plainville to invest the funds. He changed cars in Salina during the sequence of events.
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Kas
H. S. Colby
Lost Junction
Plainville
Deutschland Sets Speed Records in Transatlantic Run
A Plymouth cable report notes the Hamburg American Line’s Deutschland arrived in Hamburg from New York in five days eleven hours forty five minutes with an average speed of 23.32 knots and a 552 knot peak day, faster than the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Oceanic, and New York in the race for mails contracts.
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Plymouth
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Deutschland
Sandy Hook
Hamburg
Cherbourg
Kaiser Welhelm
Kaiser Wilhelm
Oceanic
United States
England
Germany
Rendezvous of Anarchists: Italian plots across Europe
Paterson New Jersey emerges as the hub where Italian anarchists hatched assassinations targeting McKinley, the Prince of Wales, and European rulers. Bresci, singled out for effecting Humbert's departure, is noted as the only one with nerve for the assigned killings.
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Paterson
N. J
United States
Europe
McKinley
Prince of Wales
French Republic
Germany
Austria
Russia
Italy
Bravos
Bresci
Humbert
Lfe
Do Stranger
Loubert
William
Scotland Yard
Czar
Francis Joseph
Vienna
Fire Alarm System Destroyed by Wet Wire in Smcine
Almost the entire fire alarm system of Smcine Wisconsin was burned out early Sunday when an electric wet wire crossed the north and west side alarm wires. Twelve instruments are ruined leaving the fire stations without signals. Damage estimated at over $12,000.
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Smcine
Wis
Hold Up Suspects Captured After Rock Island Robbery
Joliet Illinois August 15 0hrvin BF Smith an aspiring actor from Chicago and Tom Walsh held up and robbed an elderly man named Hacker on the Rock Island railroad tracks near Rockdale Police fired shots at the duo and they are now jailed in the sanitary district lockup.
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Joliet
Hrvin Bf, Smith
Cheago
Tom Walsh
Hacker
Rock Island
Rockdale
Sanitary District
Sioux City Seeks Elevation as See City
News from Omaha reports the Vatican has established a new see. Bishop Scannell informed Father E W Fowler of St Joseph Church in Sioux City that the city will be made a see city, a development noted in the August 15 communication.
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Sioux City
Vatican
Scannell
Omaha
E. W. Fowler
St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church
Brave Policeman's Quick Save Stalls Runaway Carriage
In Chicago on August 15 a pair of runaway horses sped toward the bridge with Mrs. Clark and her coachman aboard. Officer William R. Gibbons leapt into the street, wrestling the flying reins and braking the team just before it reached the river.
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Ilush Street
Clark
Plaza
William R. Gibbons
Riches Taxes to the Wing
Detroit report covers the collapse of George H. Ward a former millionaire broker who lost his Detroit fortune and fled to New York His penniless wife now lives with their newborn child in a charitable institution and plans to seek help while her mother and self are destitute Chicago baseball scores summarize a day of league play with results from St Louis Pittsburg Chicago Cincinnati and Cleveland Detroit.
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George H. Ward
Board of Trade
New York
St. Mary’s Hospital
Chicago
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Boston
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Buffalo
Indianapolis
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Repudiation of Township Bonds Seen Across Indiana
In Greencastle Aug 15 the repudiation of 60000 dollars in Washington and Floyd township gravel road bonds highlights widespread risk in the state where road bonds were sold. Authorities say the error stems from insufficient advertising of the bonds under the law.
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Greencastle
Ind
Washington
Floyd
Illinois Man Stole Silks From Lima Dry Goods
A Bloomington Illinois man named Thomas Williams was arrested in Lima Ohio after a Sunday night robbery at Carroll & Cooney dry goods store. About $2,000 worth of silks were stolen and most have been recovered. Williams had a sample case full of silks he could not account for.
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Illinois
Lima
Carroll & Cooney
Thomas Williams
Bloomington
Ill
Governor Shaw to name Gear’s successor next Saturday
Des Moines politics center on Governor Shaw appointing a successor to Senator Gear with A B Cummins of Des Moines or D P Dolliver of Fort Dodge as likely choices. Macomb chosen for new western Illinois normal school site by board of trustees.
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Shaw
Gear
A. B. Cummins
D. P. Dolliver
Fort Dodge
Macom
Normal
Springfield
Ill
New
Western Ilinois Normal School
Macomb
Kick of a Horse Fatal to Wisconsin Farmer
John Yunek, a well known farmer of Fennimore Wisconsin, died from injuries after being kicked by a horse on August 15. The incident occurred on his farm and was reported by local authorities.
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Fennimore
Wis
John Yunek
Heat Wave Blasts Central Kansas Thinning Crops
Intense hot wind swept Salina and central Kansas on August 14 and 15, with vegetation withering under the high temperatures. Farmers report stressed crops and the heat disrupting daily field work across the region.
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Salina
Kan
Kansas
Germany bars Metz 1870 celebrations
The German emperor forbids the usual Metz 1870 war celebration. Judge Oliver H. Horton of Chicago gave away 2,000 streetcar tickets and 1,000 lake steamboat rides to poor children before his vacation. Reports mention various political and social happenings across the United States.
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Metz
France
Oliver H. Horton
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Chihuahua
Stob Fitzsimmons
New York
Bensonhurst
Hadsted Street
Garfield Boulevard
John G. Woolley
United States
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Ashbridge
Philadelphia
St. Paul
Pacific Coast
Michael Cronin
Samuel Wortech
Wortech
Duchess of
Manchester
Zimmerman
Cincinnati
Visaya
U. S. Grant
Richfield Springs
Phillippines
Ingland
Sweden
Gothenburg
Allies Near Pekin but Breach Blocked by City Walls
Dispatches from Aug 15 report Allied forces between Hosi Wu and near Peking with no inside city access. Paris and London papers give conflicting paths while Chinas walls rise fifty feet. Congress dispatch remains confidential and warns of broader European pressure over Shanghai troop landings.
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Peking
Hosi-Wu
Paris
Siohi Wu
Daily Mail
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Washington
State Department
Department of State
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Chaffee
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Imperial City
Publishers Have a Kick Against Typographical Union
Frederick Driscoll representing the American Newspaper Publishers' Association told the International Typographical Union convention that publishers should see any action affecting their interests first. He criticized rules forcing linotype machinists and proofreaders to join the union and urged repeal of these laws as excessive and improper given the small number of machinists nationwide.
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Milwaukee
Frederick Driscoll
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
International Typographical Union
Driscoll
Publishers’ Association
International Typographical Bion
Linotype
Webster Davis Opens Democratic Campaign in Wheeling
Webster Davis of Missouri the assistant secretary of the interior opened the Democratic campaign at Wheeling Park. His speech largely lauded the Boers and their independence struggle. In Jackson Michigan a fire damaged John Belustra's restaurant with kerosene-soaked floors. Insurance on the contents stood at $300. Reinistra was arrested pending investigation.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Webster Davis
Missouri
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Wheeeling Park
Jackson
Mich
John Belustra
Francis Street
Senator Ingalls Very Ill in Las Vegas
Ex Senator Ingalls is reported very ill in Las Vegas New Mexico. He plans to travel to Atchison soon after his sons arrive and says he feels able to travel though weak and thin.
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Las Vegas
N. M
Ingalls
Atchison
Pretoria column safe after reported Boer capture at Elands River
London dispatch says Colonel Hoare's column is safe and the convoy reported captured by Boer forces at Elands River. The Pretoria correspondent for the Daily News wires the latest developments.
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Boare
London
Pretoria
Daily News
Hoare
Elands River
Young student claims revolutionary primary battery patent
A Richmond student of electricity has applied for a patent on a primary battery said to be highly novel. The device supposedly delivers a steady eighteen volt per quart cell, maintains current until exhaustion, and powers a two horse power motor for ten hours with eight quart cells. The inventor states the exciting fluid is fed at one drop per minute, a key difference from existing cells.
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Steinns
Richmond
Tid
Car
Stolen Child Found After Kidnapping Incident
Little Hazel Patterson, 11, abducted in Kenosha in a family dispute over custody, was found in Waukegan at midnight when the police chief recovered her. Her sister had taken the girl to a hotel. abductors escaped by carting. The case sparked public alarm and followed a long family quarrel.
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Waukegan
Hazel Patterson
Kenosha
Hazel
Mansfield
William Maloney
Pleasant Prairie
Saloon Closure Order Issued in Rhinelander Wis
A sweeping order from Mayer and Brennan closes all saloons after 11 30 p m and bars opening before 5 a m. No liquor can be dispensed on Sunday under the measure as read in Rhinelander Wisconsin on August 15.
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Rhinelander
Wis
Mayer &Rennan
Markets Report Chicago Aug 14 Quotations on Wheat Corn and Live Stock
Chicago Board of Trade quotes show wheat prices at various months with highs and lows, corn range, oats, pork and lard futures, butter eggs and produce prices, and live stock bids from Chicago and East Buffalo and St. Louis markets. Receipts and bids for hogs cattle and lambs are listed with ranges and averages.
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Chicago Board of Trade
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Ohio
Texas
East Buffalo
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
N.Y
St Louis Grales
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