Delegates Arrive as Democrats Rally for Platform Speak
Bustle swirls at Kansas City hotels as Towne Van Wyck Croker and other notables shift to the Democrats convention scene. Chairman Jones outlines a Chicago platform echo and Bryan’s issues while Indiana Shively and others push vice presidential plans. Pre-convention work at the hall nears completion amid buoyant party energy.
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Hig Hotels
Jones
Charles A. Towne
Towne
Taylor
Bell
National
Silver Republican Party
General Corser
Colonel van Horn
Kansas City
Congress
David B. Hill
Colonel Bryan
Lincoln
Augustus van Wyck
Harry W. Walker
New York
van Wyck
Croker
Murphy
Elliot Danforth
New York State Executive Committee
Campbell
State Committee
Judge van Wyck
Mason and Dixon Line
Shively
Indiana
Benton McMillin
Tennessee
Illinois
Mr. Croker
Urison
Hugh Dougherty
Bluffton
G. W. Menzies
Mount Vernon
James ‘Murdock
Lafayette
Chicago
McKinley
Porto Rico
Philippines
Democratic Party
Bryan
North American Review
Minnesota
Sulzer
Big
Army of
Carpenters
Masons
Roosevelt Busy Chicago Day Before Oklahoma City Trip
Governor Theodore Roosevelt spent a full day in Chicago meeting Marquette club members and Rough Riders, attending church and addressing Sunday school children, signing Bibles, and posing for greetings. He recounted Santiago campaign tales with Colonel Henry L. Turner and interacted with Roosevelt Tod, then boarded a Santa Fe train for Oklahoma.
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Theodore Roosevelt Tod
Santa Fe
Oklahoma
Negro Laborers Driven Out of Poplar Bluff
Owing to labor shortages Mississippi county farmers imported negro workers. A masked mob burned the shanties, whipped several, and gave the rest 24 hours to leave. Those who fired on the mob were strung up briefly but released. Farmers threaten to hire Chinese labor.
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Poplar Bluff
Mississippi County
Persian Kurds Raid Turkish Territory Near Roumania
A party of Persian Kurds led by Timour Khan, said to have Russian protection, raided Turkish territory near Seral Roumania. In the clash with Ottoman troops Timour Khan and two of his nephews were killed.
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Constantinople
Timour Khan
Seral
Roumania
Tiimour
Prohibition Party Convention Debates Suffrage Viewpoints
At Chicago June 29 and again June 27 the Prohibition party wrestled with a suffrage plank failing to win inclusion. Frances W. Beauchamp charged a Willard portrait was removed, a claim denied as the portrait merely fell. The platform favored prohibition, endorsed suffrage and the Young Men's Prohibition League.
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Chicago
Francis W. Beauchamp
Kentucky
Frances E. Willard
Prohibition Convention Enthusiastic Start Amid Swallow Parade
The Prohibition convention opened with strong optimism as Rev. S S C Swallow supporters staged a parade. Delegates cheered multiple lithographs of Swallow while John G Woolley’s camp appeared confident he would win on the first ballot. Chairman Stewart declared the party not dead and fans filled the hall. A credential reports session followed and a mass meeting was planned for the evening to honor the nominees.
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Chicago
Prohibition Party
Regiment
Samuel J. Dickie
Michigan
Prohibition
Stewart
Pennsylvania
Swallow
Hale Johnson
John G. Woolley
National Committee
Committee On Credentials
Deadly Snakes Escape From Rochester Show
Citizens of Rochester fear after a box of rattlers copperheads adders and other reptiles escapes during a snake show by the Press club. A rattlesnake at large in Mrs Joseph Palmer's yard troubled police until Officers Mehle and Greve dispatched it. Three rattlers remain at large.
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Rochester
N. Y
Press Club
Mre
Joseph Palmer
Mehle
Greve
Witness Printers Election Adopts Elgin as Next Meet Site
Delegates to the annual state convention of the Allied Printing Crafts adjourned sine die in Danville Illinois on June 30 and selected Elgin as the next meeting place. State officers elected include President T. P. Sheehan Elgin Vice President C B Ledyard Chicago Secretary John Onyan Peoria. Delegates to the Federation of Labor to meet at Kewanee were Grebe Peoria Conlin Danville Jones Chicago Mesick Chicago and Wilcox Peoria.
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Witness
Danville
Allied Printing Crafts
Elgin
Messrs. Grebe
Peoria
Conlin
Jones
Chicago
Mesick
Wilcox
Boer Attack Fails Near Senekal During June Skirmish
The War Office dispatch from Gen. Roberts dated Pretoria June 28 reports a Boer assault under Commandants Brefers and Nel repulsed near Senekal on June 26. British forces burned the laager with 3 killed and 21 wounded. A June 25 skirmish at Roodevalspruit is noted.
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Senekal
London
War Office
Roberts
Pretoria
Brefers
Nel
Roodevalspruit
Oregon Runs Ashore Near Chefoo On A Fast Voyage
The battleship Oregon reportedly went ashore near Chefoo in the Miac Tao group while en route from Hongkong to Taku. A steamer of Indo China Navigation rushed to assist. Officials in Washington had not confirmed the incident by midnight.
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Indo-China Line
Goss
Bhenghal
Oregon
Hoo Kie
Chefoo
Indo-China Steam Navigation Company
Hong Kong
Washington
Remey
Hongkong
Taku
Wilde
Manila
Zafiro
Irving M. Scott Company
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Charles ‘Ke. Clark
Monterey
Cape Horn
Cervera
Horn
Puget Sound
Sand Key
Fla
Bloodhounds on Robbers Track Lincoln Patrol
Armed detectives aided by bloodhounds pursue a masked robber who robbed passengers in three Burlington sleepers near Bradshaw early Thursday morning. The fugitive allegedly fled by buggy, with two accomplices ready. Bloodhounds traced a sixty five mile zigzag route from Bradshaw as railroad headquarters express confidence in capture.
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Lincoln
Neb
Burlington Road
Bradshaw
Fear of Indian Uprising Reported at Rainy River
Fear spreads from Rat Portage Ontario where about a thousand Indians gather near Rainy river mouth. Leech lake participants suspected of inciting violence against settlers as Rainy lake holds a large secret gathering with no clear grievance cited by agents. The atmosphere is tense.
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Rat Portage
Ont
Rainy River
Ontario
Leech Lake
Rainy Lake
Judge Stough Not in Denver, Morris, TL, June 30
Judge Stough has been at his home in this city for several weeks after returning from Chicago for rest prescribed by his physician. He fell ill with rheumatism and other complications, but his condition has not been dangerous during this time.
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Morris
Judge Stough
Chicago
Rear Admiral John W. Philip Near Death in New York
Rear Admiral John W. Philip, commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was near death for hours in New York on June 30. Medical aid from Dr. Hawke, Dr. Riggs, and two outside physicians preserved his life.
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Philip
New York
John W. Philip
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Hawke
Riggs
Navy Yard
Ufe
Frost Hits North Dakota Wheat Regions
North Dakota weather brings heat followed by frost and high winds. In Grand Forks on July 2, temperatures fell to 34 degrees F with 31 degrees noted in places, damaging only small patches of the wheat crop and leaving most fields largely unscathed.
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Grand Forks
N. D
Bread of Life sermon notes on John six
The text outlines Jesus as the bread of life from John six, interpreting the miracle of the loaves, the Sea of Galilee events, and the crowd’s misunderstanding. It frames faith as belief in Jesus, not merely seeking bodily sustenance, with references to Moses, manna, and divine sealing by the Father.
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Jones
Eppe
Benator Jones
National Committee
Sea of Galilee
Gennesaret
Jesus
Bethsaida
Tiberias
R. V
God
Messiah
Whitelaw
Father
John
Moses
Westcott
Christ
Eden
Ufor L
Earth
Hell
Eternay Lfe
New Jerusalem
Remarkable case of man born with missing right ribs
The New York special notes Francisco Brashella, a 42 year old Italian fruit dealer from Hazleton Pennsylvania, born without the three ribs over the right lung. Surgeons at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn have taken interest in his anatomy.
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New York
Philadelphia Inquirer
Francisco Brashella
Long Island College Hospital
Brooklyn
Brashella
Hazleton
Penn
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Committee On Permanent Organization
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