Democratic convention in Denver nominates Kern for vice president
The Democratic national convention in Denver nominated John Worth Kern of Indiana for vice president by acclamation after a day of tumultuous enthusiasm. Bryan was renominated for president. eight delegates were unseated in a credentials dispute, and the platform was unanimously adopted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
John Worth Kern
Indiana
Charles A. Towne
Archibald McNeil
Clark Howell
Taft
Hitchcock
Sheldon
Republican National Committee
William Jennings Bryan
Gov. Johnson
Minnesota
Judge Gray
Delaware
Bryan
Credentials Committee
Pennsylvania
H. D. Clayton
Alabama
Committee On Platform
Gov. Haskell
Oklahoma
Committee On Credentials
District of Columbia
Counterfeiter Attorney Arrested in Danville Cellar Find
Charles E. Brown an attorney 35 of Danville Illinois was arrested by secret service agents on counterfeiting charges. An elaborate outfit was found in the cellar of his residence.
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Charles E. Brown
Danville
Secret Service
James S. Sherman
Republican Congressional Committee
Thomas E. Watson
United States
Atlanta
Taft Plans July 28 Notification in Cincinnati
July 28 events were organized in Cincinnati for formal notification of W H Taft as the Republican nominee for president. The other items report a Great Northern mail train robbery attempt in Idaho where the suspect was shot and captured, Grover Cleveland’s will details, a St Petersburg roof collapse killing ten and injuring forty, a $25000 Diamond Point theft in New York, a Coney Island fire causing $150000 in losses, and Fort Hamilton desertion prison escape by three inmates.
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Cincinnati
W. H. Taft
Robert Roman
Great Northern Road
Idaho
Grover Cleveland
Princeton
Diamond Point Pen Company
New York
Coney Island
Fort Hamlton
Revolutionists capture Choluteca after days of fight
Armed revolutionists from Salvador captured Gracias and attacked Choluteca in Honduras residents resisted for three days. Other items report New York executives cleared of stock sub misrepresentation charges, a Navajo uprising in New Mexico, and a fatal train collision near Center Moriches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honduras
Choluteca
Herbert J. Hapgood
Hapgoods Incorporated
Ralph L. Kilby
New York
Hapgoods Sales Company
New Mexico
W. R. Hutchings
Brooklyn
Center Moriches
L. I
Petoskey Fiber Paper Company
Nevada
Columbus
Medicine Hat
Hazleton
Grace Goodsell
America
Venezuela
Senor Veloz-Goilicoa
Bacon
Washington
Paraguay
BE. C. O’brien
Charles Taylor
Missouri Pacific
Lamonte
Scnobnoster
Gulf of Finland
Reval
Brooklyn Arion Choral Society
Philharmonic Hall
Berlin
Humbert
Paris Matin
Journal
Buckusburg
Wayne Lawrence
Annie Bannister
Maine
Rhine
Cologne
Boston
Edmund Smith
North Rose
N. Y
Joe Walinsky
Moline
Republican National Committee
Hot Springs
Frank H. Hitchcock
Massachusetts
George R. Sheldon
Arthur I. Vorys
Cincinnati
College Point
Zehden
Condera
Salvador
Gracias
Richard Alexander
Real Estate Board of Brokers of
Dexter
Frank J. Gould
Gould
William M. Ingraham, Jr
Waverly
Albert McVay
Pine Bluff
Ark
Acacia
William Simmons
Kingston
Bull Rock Point
Sackett’s Harbor
S. Gibble
Roosevelt
Peary
Oyster Bay
Sydney
Cape Breton
San Francisco
Iowa News Roundup From Burlington To Ames
A mixed Iowa digest reports deaths from bichloride of mercury and mine blasts, a Hinsideln grave rescue, a Clinton dynamite arrest, and a Dubuque mine tragedy. Wapello votes $15,000 water works, and a transient farm hand Will Williams found dead near two corn cribs. Humboldt doctors’ convention erupts over a president’s anti liquor stance. Nevada area blaze kills two children and injures a mother. Des Moines notices a street library clash with Carnegie funding. A Des Moines mail clerk assault ends in a robbery.
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John Etsinger
Burlington
St. Francis Hospital
Hinsiedeln
Switzerland
William Mayer
Omaha
Clinton
Ole Rosenquist
Dubuque
Royal Prince
V Ctim
Wapello
Iowa City
A. J. Williamson
Will Williams
Ule
Humboldt
Charley White
Brig Stong
Eagle Grove
Iowa
Boynson
Cedar Rapids
N. J. Stephens
Nevada
Lucy Bowers
Roy Stephens
Stephens
Bowers
A. Ju. Bowers
Modale
Ruth McPherson
Des Moines
Morris
Ted Stevens
Great Western
Stevens
Andrew Carnegie
Rockwell City
Carnegie
News Arcade
William Harris
Ming
True
Iowa Druggists’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Mutual
Bryan Sees NY Carry Chance in Every State
From Fairview Nebraska July 12 Bryant predicts he will carry New York and has a chance in every state. He greets Theodore Bell and Minnesota North Dakota Virginia delegations amid lawn talks and campaign goodwill. Bryan sits among delegates in a farmer talk on the lawn.
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Mr. Bryan
New York
Lincoln
Fairview
Bryan
Theodore A. Bell
Neb
W. J. Bryan
Nebraska
Minnesota
Denver
Johnson
North
North Dakota
Virginia
T. C. O’brien
Conners
Rock Island Depot
C. F. Murphy
Tammany
Lewis Nixon
F. B. Warrison
Robert B. Luce
Martin Littleton
D. L. Cohalan
James Cassidy
Ohio
Sunday drownings claim several lives across cities
The heatwave caused multiple drownings nationwide. Detroit reports four drowned, Baltimore boats overturned by a sudden windstorm with ten fatalities, and other incidents include two at Peoria, one at Marshalltown, two at Nevada, three more in Iowa towns, four in Duluth, one in Cresco, and one in Des Moines.
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Chicago
Detroit
Baltimore
Peoria
Marshalltown
Iowa
Nevada
Perry
Duluth
Hearst Denounces Bryan Support in New York Papers
Hearst signals loss of confidence in the Democratic Party and William J. Bryan. His two New York papers, the American and the Evening Journal, announce reduced backing and question Bryan's prospects in the party.
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Hearst
Bryan
New York
William J. Bryan
William R. Hearst
Mr. Hearst
the American
The
Evening Journal
Mr. Bryan
Hartje Appeals Bill Case To Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Pittsburg on July 12 Augustus Hartje the millionaire paper magnate filed an appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from Judge Frazer’s ruling ordering him to pay his wife 26750 dollars in expenses and 7000 dollars in counsel fees. He notes the 5000 dollar yearly alimony but disputes the other costs as too high.
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Clyde
Markley
Supreme Court
State of
Iowa
Adolph Wettstein
Ames
Minnie Perkins
Little & Co
Kellogg Crossing
Hartje
Pittsburg
Augustus Hartje
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Frazer
Literary Notes and New Books in July Magazines
The July issues feature Charles Edward Russell on Trinity Church tenements and a critique of church methods, Dr W H Thomson on heredity and insanity, Hamlin Garland on psychic trance, and serials in American Boy. McClure’s highlights Adams on public health, Cleland on criminology, Barnes on Pinchot, and Matthews on English as a world language. The Century discusses World English, The New Old Healing, and Hale’s travel plea. Atlantic covers public lands, and St Nicholas debuts submarine stories with illustrations.
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Everybody's Magazine
Charles Edward Russell
Trinity Church
William Hannan Thomson
Hamlin Garland
Mississippi
Hugh C. Weir
Ringling Brothers
Kavanaugh
Luckanow
India
Rangers
McClure
Samuel Hopkins Adams
McKenzie Cleland
Chicago
Will C. Barnes
Gifford Pinchot
Brander Matthews
Matthews
Henry Wood
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co
Boston
Wood
Woman’s Home Companion
Edward Everett Hale
America
Seth K. Humphrey
A. S. Isaacs
New York University
Carnegie Institution of Washington
George S. Cushing
Ernest C. Walker
New Methodist Bishops
Ferdinand Carle Iglehart
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Bov. Sanders
Louisiana
State Board of Arbitration
William L. Wilson
United States Home Protectors’ Fraternity
Port Huron
Mich
William Lochren
United States Court For
District of Minnesota
St. Paul
M. D. Purdy
August Lieb
New House
General News
Iowa News
William Kirgis
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