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State House""' ESTABLISHED EST 18 BRYAN AND THE Tfce Nebraskan Wins by a Large Majority on First , Ballot THE NOMINATION MADE UNANIMOUS ?GREAT GATHERING OP DEMO CRATS COMES TO AN END AFTER ENTHUSIASTIC AND INSPIRING SES SION OF CON VENTION. -Convention Hall, Denver, July 10, 3.40 a. m.?William Jennings Bryan was this morning nominated for pres ident of the United States by the Democratic convention. The nomina tion was made at 3.40 a. m. amid scenes of tumultuous enthusiasm, the vast assemblage breaking en mass into a frenzied demonstration of intensely dramatic tribute to the chosen leader. The first and only ballot gave Bry an the commanding and decisive to tal of 892.% votes, or 221 more than enough to nominate; Gray 59%; was greeted with a pandemonium of sound and motion, floor and gal leries joining in deafening, long continuing tumult. The decision was followed after the lull with motions from the Gray and Johnson leaders to make the no mination unanimous and by accla mation, which was carried with an echoing chorus of approval in which every State joined its voice with but one dissenting vote from the State of Georgia. Convention Hall, Denver, July 9. ?The Democratic national conven tion proceeded tonight to th(T nomi nating cf a candidate for president of the United States, the nominating speeches and seconding speeches be ing made amid scenes of tumultu ous enthusiasm. The names of George Gray of De laware and Gov. Johnson of Minne sota were also placed in nomination with demonstrations of approval from their limited followings. The tide of sentiment was unmistakably and overwhelmingly in favor of the Ne braskan and foreshadowed his nomi nation before the session closed. The platform committee was pot ready to report when the evening session began, and after listening to political oratory the rules of pro cedure were suspended and the con vention proceeded with the speeches placing the candidates for president in nomination with the understand ing that the actual vote would be deferred until the platform had been adopted. The speeches placing Wm. J. Bry an in nomination was made by Igna tius J. Dunn of Nebraska, a youth ful orator of fire and eloquence, whose closing phrase stirred the vast assemblage into wild demonstration. "I nominate," he exclaimed, "as the standard bearer of our party, the man who in the thrilling days of *96 and 1900 bore the battle scar red banner of Democracy with fame as untarnished as the Crusaders of old?America's great commoner, Nebraska's gifted son, William J. Bryan!" Immeidately a pandemonium of sound and motion was unloosed, as* delegates and spectators rose en masse and joined in the reverberat ing chorus of tribute to the Ne braska candidate. The standards of the States were wrenched from their places and borne through the hall to the platform, while bauners bear 5ng the portrait of the commoner were waved aloft and the multitude joined in long continued tribute. At times the intensity of the demonstra tion threatened a panic. One woman was borne out fainting. Denver, July 10.?The Democratic national convention concluded its labors this afternoon by the nomina tion of John Worth Kern of Tndiana for vice president, completing the ticket on which William Jennings Bryan was made the nominee for president during the early hours of this morning. The nomination of Kern was made by acclamation amid the resounding cheers of delegates and spectators. No ballot was neces sary as he tide of sentimeD' had set irresistiblly toward the Indiana statesman, State after State register ing their votes in his favor and all other candidates Kvith-drawing be fore the universal demand for his nomination. The condition, after addjourning at daylight with the nomination of Mr. Bryan, resumed its session at 1 p. m., with a powerful undercurrent already in motion toward the nomi nation of Kern for the second place. On the call of States Indiana present ed the name of Kein; Colorado, through Former Governor Thomas, placed in nomination Charles A. Towne cf New York, Connectic.it placed Archibald McNeil and Georgia! r 08 69. "KERN : NOMINEES. Clark Howell. > T*e names of Judge Georgr. Gray of Delaware and of John Mitchell of Illinois were not presented, ow ing to the explicit requests of these gentlemen not to'have their names go before the convention. For a time it looked as though a ballot would be required. But the skyline of States which joined in seconding Kern's nomination soon made it apparent that the chances of all other candidates had been ex tinguished. Mr. Towne in person was the first candidate to recognize the decesive nature of the Kern movement and in a ringing speech withdrew his name and pledged his ct>ri?rt to the ticket of Bryan and Kern. Withdrawals quick ly followed from the supporters of K-.well of Georgia and McNeil of Connecticut, leaving the Indiana candidate alone in the field. The withdrawal of the Connecti cut candidate was accompanied by a motion that the nomination of Kern be made by acclamation. The motion was carried with a deafening shout and the great assemblage broke Into clamoring demonstration on the accomplishment of its work and the completion of the Democratic na tional ticket. The nomination was made at 4.23 o'clock and the convention adjourn ed without delay. The Democratic national committee will assemble tomorrow to complete its new or ganization ?nd to select the chair man who will be the commander in-chief of the Democratic forces in the campaign. Thousands of delega tes and spectators are scattering to night their homes and every train is bearing away thousands from the eventful scenes of the Denver con vention. * ACCUSED OF POISONING WIFE. W. T. Jones, of Union County, Charg ed With Murder. W. T. Jones, of Santuc, whose wife died suddenly last Sunday night, was arrested Thursday and lodged in jail under a warant charging him with administering or causing to be administered strychnine poison to Marion Jones, thereby causing her death. The warrant was sworn out Thursday morning' DT^Tr^y-'FaitrtT a cousin of the deceased, and was issued by Magistrate Vinson. It will be recalled that the jury of inquest returned a verdict that Mrs. Jones came to her death from the effect of strychine administered by parties unknown to the jury. Jones is a large land owner and a progressive farmer, but it is alleged that he has mistreated his wife for years, and this together with the cir cumstances surrounding her death, caused suspicion to be directed against hun and led to his arrest. * SEVEN PERISH IN FLOOD. Rt.ilroad Sen-ice Improving in Ne braska, But Not Normal Yet. A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., the bodies of all the known victims of the flood on Monday have been recovered. The list numbers seven, as follows: Hermand Amend, 14 months old; John Amend. 9 years of age; Mag gie Amend, 12 years of age; Willie Amend, 5 years of age; George Dam, 12 years of age: John Nelson, 20 years of age; Albert Nicholas, 3 5 years of age. * Will be Tried for Bribery. United States Attorney Baker and Special Assistant Attorney General Pugh have announced that John A. Benson, of San Francisco, Cal., witl be tried on a charge of bribery in connection with theWestern land cases. * Weds Anna Gould. A civil ceremony at Strand Regis try office in London, and later a reli gious ceremony at the French Pro testant church bined Prince Helie de Sagan and Madame Anna Gould, the latter on her second matrimonial venture. The prince turned Protest ant, adopting the faith of his bride.' Not Guilty of Election Perjury. Hugh Hood, who was manager of the Crown bank at Scotland, Ont.. was acquitted on a charge of wilful ly making a false oath. The cas( arose out of incidents in Oaklanc township, in the recent proviucia" election. " Cossacks Watch British Legation. Sixty Cossacks are watching thf British legation at Teheran. Persia, to prevent the escape of many refu gees who are in concealment by the British charged' affairs. * Populists Notify Watson. Georgia Populists held their State convention Thursday, at Atlanta, Ga.. when Thomas E. Watson was notifi ed of his nomination for the Pres idency. Caused Sudden Death. While eating peanuts, shelled by his father, William Ford, of Wset Schuylkill, Pa., hi flve-year-o d son choked to death, i'he nut lod^id in the lad's windpipe. ORANGE BTJ] BREAK IS MADE. OUR DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH VENEZUELA AND. Senor Veloz-Goiticoa Notifies Secre tary Bacon That His Government Orders the Legation Closed. A dispatch from Washington on Thursday says the diplomatic rela tions between America and Venezuela that bave existed uninterruptedly for more than half a century, though- in recent years severely strained, were Thursday completely severed. That afternoon Senor Velzo-Goiticoa, the Venezuelan charge d'affaires, called at the state department at Washing ton ?by appointment to present to Acting Secretary Bacon notice from ? his government that he was to quit his post here, close up the Venezue ian- legation - rn-Washington 'and re pair to Venezuela. The charge explained to the acting secretary-that the action of the state department in withdrawing Jacob Sleeper, the American charge, from Caracas and in closing up its lega tion there made it necessary for his goveernment to take similar acti.jn in the case of its own legation in. Washington. Just what took place between Act ing Secretary Bacon and the charge can not be known beyond the fact that the latter presented his lettors of recall. He made no demand for his passports, nor could he do so consistently, in view of the fact that Foreign Minister Paul had declined issue such passports to the Ameri can charge when he withdrew from Caracas, on the ground that there was no necesity for passports, the country being in profound peace and his person not being threatened in any way. Senor Veloz-Goiticoa did communi cate to Mr. Bacon the fact that the files and papers of the Venezuelan legation would be placed in the cus tody of Senor Jacobo Pimental, the Venezuelan consul general in New York. This statement is regarded as an indication that the Venezue lan government will follow the pre cedent established by the United States in refraining from interfering with trade by closing the consulates, notwithstanding the branch in diplo matic relations. It ispointed out by officials who have followed closely the develop ments in the Venezuelan situation that there is not the slightest danger of war in the immediate future or indeed at all. Rather will the situa tion resemble that following ,the rupture of diplomatic relations be tween France and Venezuela, for in stance, where legations were closed on both sides and all official relations terminated while trade between the two countries continued. The history of these episodes in the case of Vene zuela is very much alike. Senor Ve loz-Goiticoa's withdrawal follows that of Minister Rusel? as diploma tic representative of the United States to Venezuela about two months ago and that of Mr. Sleeper, the secretary of the legat-*-u, and Lieut. Ruggles, the military ..ttache. about two weeks since. The reason for the withdrawal of the American legation at Caracas arose from the persistent refusal of Venezuela to give redress for the governmental fiction [by which all American interests in Venezuela were either destroyed or confiscated, or to submit the claims of American citizens to arbitration. * Artest of Suspect Caused Death. Less than an hour after Fred Singleton, of Cincinnati, 0., was ask ed to sigu an affidavit charging the man Evans, or West, arrested in Boston, Mass., with the murder of his father, Squire Fred Singleton, of Newport, Ky., the young man was seized with convulsions and soon afterwards died. RG, SM C TUESDAY, JTJI THEY'RE OFF! EXPLOSION KLLS TWO. Terrible Accident Occurred in Boston Tenement House. A dispatch from Boston, says as the result of a gas explosion and fire in a three-story tenement house, 295 and 297 Cambridge street, West End, early Thursday, two are dead, two hopelessly burned and 11 suffer ing from more or less serious injur ies. I The dead: Mary Jane Brown,] wife of James Brown, suffocated; body found by firemen in bedroom. JEustice McNeal, 3 years- old, body found in ruins. The seriously injured included Mrs. Mazie McNeal add Miss Floret te Austin, for whose recovery no hope is given by the hospital doc tors. Mrs. McNeal was overcome while trying to save her two children. After throwing one from a window, she became unconscious but was re scued, although her little son perish ed, j Mrs. Austin was overcome by smoke, and .badly burned about the body. William Austin and James Brown were burned while trying to save their wives. * HAIR DRESSER SLAIN. Body of Frenchman Found in Rear of His Shop in New Orleans. After lying for nearly twenty-four hours in the rear of a little hair dressing shop at No. 219 Bourbon street, New Orleans, the body of Al phonse Durel was found late Thurs day afternoon in a badly mutilated condition. Near by lay a bloody hatchet, evidently the weapon used by the murderer. Investiation showed that Durel's shop apparently had been robbed and the police began a search for a negro woman cook, who works in the neighborhood, but who has dis appeared. Durel was for many years the proprietor of a fashionabble hvr dressing establishment Sn the Old French quarter. Various circumstances combined to reduce his extensive trade to a very modest patronage and he finally lame to occupy the little shop where his body was found. Neighbors who missed him started an investigation, which resulted in the discovery of the body. * PUT POISON IN COFFEE. Woman Charged With Trying to Kill Husband and Two Sons. Mrs. Alexander T. Clark, wife of a well known farmer, residing near Ingrams, Danville county Va., was held for the grand jury at a preli minary hearing Thursday at Chat ham, on a charge of thrice attempt ing to poisou her husband and her two grown stepsons by placing Paris green in their coffee. It was only after the third attempt that the cause of sudden illness of the three men was discovered. A physician, who analyzed the coffee, found that it contained poison. The only rea son assigned for the deed is the un pleasant relations with her husband.* Son of "America's Writer Jailed. F. Smith, former mayor of Daven port, la., and son of S. F. Smith, who wrote "My Country 'Tis of Thee," went before th< Iowa State Board of Pardons, this week, and asked that he be released from the state penitentiary at Anamosa, where he is serving a term of four years for the embezzlement of a large sum of money. * Flies a Mile a Minute. Glenn H. Curtiss made a flight in his "June Bug" near flammondsport, N. Y., and has won the Scientific American silver cup prize for the longest flight made by any "heavier thau-air" flying machine. Mr. Cur tiss covered over a mile in a min ute and a fraction. No trouble was experienced in landing. ? ,Y 14, 1908. ?Kessler in St. Louis Republic. SWEPT BY FLAMES. BOSTON" PROPERTY" VALUED AT $1,500,000 BURNED. Fanned by Stiff Northwest Wind Fire Races Through Buildings Along the Harbor's Edge. Fire believed to haye been caused by spontaneous combustion or a locomotive spark, and fanned by a brisk northwest wind, Swept nearly a quarter of a mile of the harbor front of East Boston late Wednesday causing a property loss estimated at nearly $1,500,000. Much of the loss falls upon the Boston & Albany rail road. One person is reported miss ing and it is thought that he perish ed in the flames. He is Daniel Sulli van, a watchman at the Cunard line pier. The fire was the biggest and most destructive that has broken out along the harbor front for many years. The flames spread with remarkable rapadity and by the time the first fire fighting apparatus arrived on the scene they were beyond control and leaping from pier to pier. Within an hour of the time the fire was discovered four piers, their ware-houses,, a grain elevator con taining 30,000 bushels of grain and many loaded freight cars had been destroyed. Several vessels and lighters nar rowly escaped destruction. The big Leyland line steamer Devonian, which arrived from Liverpool, was moored at one of the piers which was destroyed. The discipline on the Devonian was so excellent, how ever, that she was warped out into the stream without even having a square inch of paint blistered. Less fortune were the British bark Bel mont of Yarmouth, N. S., and the schooners Paul Palmer, a five-mast ed craft, and the O. H. Brown, a four-masted schooner. The Belmont was moored by steel cables to the pier where the fire started. So quick ly did the flames envelope the wharf and warehouses that it was impossi ble to slip the cables from the mooring posts, and it was necesary to resort to the tedious process of cuting a half dozen more of the great wire ropes. By the time the Belmont was got ton out th stream, the paint had been burned off her hull, her cabin had been practically destroyed, her life boats charred and ruined, and her spars, sails and rigging badly burned. The Palmer escaped with slight damage to her fore topsail and fore rigging, while the rigging, sails and spars on the forward part of the Brown were badly charred. * John Mitchell Has Fat Job. John Mitchell has accepted the position of secretary of the Trade Agreement department of the Civic Federation. a,t Scranton, Pa. It pays a salary of $6,000. and its duties in volve the promotion of trade agree iments between employes and em ployers, with the ultimate end in view of more friendly relations be tween the forces of capital and la bor. * Feather Dusters Must (.'o. On the theory that tuberculosis is largely traceable to dust, the War department has issued orders placing feather dusters on the retired list. Hereafter other means will be em ployed in the big building to get rid of tlie dust on chairs, desks, etc. The calling in of the feather dusters in the War department is merely a de monstration of the strict precaution which the Government will take in aiding the tuberculosis crusade. * Primary to Select a Wife. It has been suggested that the peo ple, of Florida select a wife for Gen. Albert Gilchrlst, who has been nam ed for governor of the state on tie Democratic icket. The general s; -s he has no objection but desires that the lady be as anxious to be his wife as he is to be governor of the state.* mm JUMPED THROUGH CAR WINDOW. Wonderful Feat of Beautiful Black Mare at Rock Hill. An almost incredible thing occur red at Rock Hill Thursday. A Fried heim & Bro delivered to the South ern Railway a fine black mare, weigh ing about one thousand pounds, to be shipped to Camden. The animal was put into a regular car for ship ping cattle and' the car was run on a side track to await shipping, and the wonderful part of the matter is that the mare succeeded in jumping through the high window in the end of the car and to the ground. To! look at it one wouid suppose that a yearling calf would have a hard time squeezing through the aperture even if it were near the floor of the cay. It is nor near the floor, thouen, in fact, is quite high up. The mare got through it some way, though, and apparently is little the worse for the adventure. There are a few scratch es and little cuts around one eye and on the lower part of the legs, and one hoof ragged, as though the shoe had been torn off. Outside of that there is apparently no injury. The animal Is a very valuable one, a1 beautiful black mare. * ! WILL CAUST HIM HIS LIFE. Gulped Typhoid Fever Through Glass Tube. Gulped Death Germs Through Tube. J Edgar T. Chatham, a medical stu dent at the Western University of Pennsylvania, is dying tof typhoid fever, at the Allegheny General hos pital, which malady he contracted in a most remarkable manner. Young Chatham, since the closing of col lege, has been taking a special course in pathology at the hospital. About two weeks ago Chatham was engag ed at mixing typhoid fever germs with pure blood. He had a glass tube, which he inserted into a bot tle containing the fever germs, and stuck the other end in his mouth, to draw some of the germs up in the tube. Chatham took too long a breath, and a big lot of the fever germs, instead of stopping in the tube, slipped down into his throat, and now he is suffering from the most malignant form of the fever with no hope for his recovery. * A THROTTLE HERO. Engineer, Enveloped in Flames, Shuts off Steam. The coolness and bravery of En gineer Martin, of a speeding Pennsyl vania railroad passenger train, saved a probable fatal accident near Rich mond, Ind. While the train was speeding eastward at fifty miles an hour, a flew of the boiler blew out, and when Arndt, the fireman, opened the furnace door flames were forced into the cab by escaping steam and he was completely enveloped. He threw himself from the cab to the side of the track as the only means of escape. Martin realized his own danger, but he closed the throttle and crawl ed throught the window to the run ning board alongside the boiler. The train ran a distance of two miles with Martin badly burned, clinging to the side of the engine before it came to a stop. Arndt was found by the track five miles away unconscious. * MASQUERADED FOR YEARS Woman Caught When Taken to Hos pital by Police For Treatment. Charged with disorderly conduct in masquerading for nine years as a man, Mrs. August Sieb, thirty-six years old, of No. 641 Sixth avenue, New York has been sentenced to the workhouse for five days. Two policemen came across the unconscious form of what appeared to be a man at Sixty-second street and Broadway on Saturday night. They called an ambulance and the "man" apparently overcome by the heat, was taken to the Roosevelt hospital. There it developed that the patient was a woman who gave her name as Mrs. Sieb. Mrs. Sieb told the police that she had been in this country about ten years, and that after seperating from her husband she started out to earn her living. Dressed as a man she readily obtained employment, men tioning hotels in Broadway where she worked as a "lunchman." OIL FIELDS BURNING. The Blaze Is Visible For One Hrn drcd Miles At Sea. The immense Mexican oil fields between Tampico and Tuxpan are burning. The fire is visible 100 miles away on the Gulf. The light i.s Intermittent and therefore danger ous to prisoners. A dispatch to this effect was re ceived at the state department Tues day morning from United States Con sul General Emerill Griffith, at Tam pico. No further details of th? fire are known there and the cause cannot be ascertained. It is brdieved that the entire fields, probably the largest in the world, are on fire and will be bnrned dry. It will entail a loss of millions upon millions of gallons oi oil. Coal Strike in Alabama. Alabama union miners have called strike. Sl.FO PER ANNUM. HEAR CANDIDATES. SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN PARTY AT YORKVILLE. Chief Interest Seems to Hare Center ed in the Cross Fire Between Ma yor Rhett and Mr. Grace. Yorkvllle, July S.?Special: The Senatorial candidates spoke to a re presentative audience of about three hundred voters in the Court House here to-day. Couniy Chairman Wil son presided. The only incident of special mo ment was an attack on Mayor Rhett by Mr. John P. Grace and it is gen erally conceded that the onslaught was ineffective. Messrs. Evans, Smith. Johnstone and Grace devoted much of their time to criticism of Mr. Rhett and his platform, and this was construed by many of the auditors to mean that theybelieved him to be the man in their way. The first speaker was Hon. 0. B. Martin, who devoted himself to the subjects heretofore discussed by him. Mr. R. G. Rhett was next introduc ed. He outlined his platform as to the needed changes in the financial system of the country in the need of such legislation as would correct the evil of discrimination in freight rates between different sections of the country, and made clear the fact that he was opposed to so hamper ing the roads that they would not be able to properly maintain their tracks, rolling stock, pay their em ployees adequate wages and the stockholders reasonable dividends on their investments. In conclusion ho asserted that he was a, lifelong De mocrat and said that while this fact was fully recognized in his home town, a party from there, who was posing as a candidate for the same office as himself, would follow him and attempt to impugn his Democra cy. He stated that the only charge the party would make against him that was true., was that he did not vote for the President in the general election in 1896, but did vote for Bryan in 1900 and for Parker in 1904. Mr. Rhett stated that after he had announced as a candidate for the Senate he was approached'by a party in Charleston who evidently spoke with authority and assured that if he would support a certain candidate for sheriff that Mr. Grace would not be a candidate for the Senate, and that otherwise he would, and that he refused to enter into the conspiracy. . Mr. E. D. Smith followed Mr. Rhett. He devoted most of his timo to reiterating his well-known plan for throttling Wall street gamblers and securing for the down-trodden, starved, naked and ignorant cotton raisers of the South their share oZ the necessaries, comforts and luxuries or life, evidently oblivious of the fact that the people of York County, where the farmers are the most pro sperous class, were utterly unable to appreciate the conditions so elo quently set forth. Mr. John Gary Evans followed and devotedhls time to an attack on the financial system outlined by Mr. Rhett and also to the need of revis ing the tariff. Mr. J. P. Grace was next inttoduc ed. He spent his thirty minutes in an attackon Mr. Rhett, seeking to impress the audience with the Mea that. Rhett's entire career was one of treachery to the State, to Charles ton and the Democratic party. He sought to engage Mr. Rhett in a col loquy, but that gentleman stated that after Grace had finished he would have a few words to say in reply. When Grace closed he received lit tle applause. Mr. Rhett arose at his seat and stated In a few words that absolute ly every charge Grace had made in his attempt to wash Charleston dirty linen before a York County audience was false, except that he had not voted in the general election for President In 1896. This was follow ed by long and general applause, and when it had lulled Grace at tempted to say something. The ap plause was renewed, and for several minutes he stood and attempted to speak, and it was not until the chair man appealed to the audience that he was allowed to say anything, and then his statement fell on apparent ly deaf ears. Col. George Johnston was the next speaker, and by reason of his well known ability as a blender of wit and sarcasm he had the audience in a good humor. He devoted some time to criticising Mr. Rhett and then took up "Smithy" and kept the audience convulsed for a time with his recital of the dire calamity that awaited the cotton raisers of the South in case the people should be so foolish as to elect a man who had accomplished so much single handed in so short a time, not only for South Carolina but for the whole United States, in forcing Europe to pay for cotton what it was worth. Mr. W. W. Lumpkin was the last of the Senatorial candidates to speak and confined his remarks to subjects on which he has dwlet at previous meetings. In the afternoon speeches were made by Messrs. Finley, Butler and Pollock, candidates for Congress from this district. Odessa Faces a Wlieat Famine. Indications are that the wheat crop. In the Odess region of Russia will lie 25 to 50 per cent, below the aver age. American jvvicul'ural rachia ery manufacture! i are countermand ing their orders. *?