The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-07-15
News Of the World

Memphis business men have
started a movement to secure q mil
lion dollar railroad depot.
The creditors Of d. J. Sully, the
cotton bull, have accepted his terms
Of 80 cents on the dollar and the
big manipulation will be in business
again shortly.
Upon receiving word Of his nom
nation for the presidency and not
ing that the platform contained no
financial plank, Judge Parker inn
mediately wired the chairman Of
the convention that he regarded the
gold standard firmly and irreyoca-
bly, established, and should he be
elected he would act accordingly.
BY an overwhelming vote, the con-
vention notified the nominee that
the monetary question was not re-
garded as an issue, therefore his ex-
pressed views could in no manner
preclude his accepting the nomina-
ton.
Twenty persons were instantly
killed and forty seriously injured in
a wreck on the Wabash at Litchfeld,
III. The wreck was caused by an
open switch and seven Of the. nine
coaches were completely destroyed
by fire. The engine after running
into the switch struck a string Of
freight cars, and with the first three
coaches was piled into a heap across
the track and caught fire Immediate
~. To add to the horror of the
wreck the engine boiler exploded.
Officials of the railroad declare the
switch was turned by some crazy
person or for revenge, as only few
moments before the wreck another
train passed over the switch in
safety.
More farmers are killed by light
ming than any other class of people.
Statistics recently secured by the
United States department Of agri-
culture covering a period Of II
years indicate this fact conclusively. |
The main object Of the work was
to find out the number of lives
lost in the United States by light
ming, and the conditions attending
the fatalities. In an average year,
during the period covered, 713 per-
sons we're killed outright or receiv-
ed fatal injuries. OF this number,
291 were killed in the open, 15S in
houses, 81 under trees, and Sc in
barns. The circumstances attend
ing the deaths Of the remaining Isl
are unknown. During the same
year, 973 persons we're more or
less injured by lightning.
The nomination Of Judge Par
ker Of New York for first place on
the national democratic ticket again
makes Of ex-senator Hill a nation
al character. The effort of Col.
Bryan to stampede the convention
to Senator Cockrill of Missouri was
dramatic but futile, but the Cora
tor Of the Platte had the satisfac-
ton Of seeing the plank Of the
platform virtually declaring for the
gold standard stricken out. Col.
Bryan is also said to have written
the tariff plank, which favcrs Ga
wise, conservative and business
like revision and a gradual reduc-
ton Of the tariff by the friends Of
the masses and for the common veal
and not by the friends Of its abuses,
its extortions and its discrimina-
tions, keeping in view the ultimate
end of equality Of burdens and
Of opportunities and the
constitutional purpose Of raising
revenue by taxation, to-wit: The
support Of the federal government
in all its integrity and virility, but
in simplicity"
Col. Bryan was loudly cheered
during his speech at the democratic
convention in favor of the Harri-
son-Hearst contestants, but the
Hopkins delegation was seated by a
vote of two to one. II
Henry G. Davis of West Virginia
is the running mate of Judge Par
lSer on the democratic ticket, and
Hon. Thomas Taggart Of Indiana
viii succeed Senator James X. Ii
Jones as chairman of the national
committee. IL
During the first Eve days Of the
rush for homesteads on the Rosebud !
reservation in South Dakota over |
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