Work of Veterans and City Honors at Chicago Monument
A Chicago tribute to Confederate dead opens with General Gordon ordering a UCV convention in Richmond. Dr J M Curry speaks as 650 camps attend, 10,000 veterans in the city, with praise for Chicago hospitality and a pledge to unite veteran committees. Cornerstone set for Jefferson Davis monument forthcoming along with a veterans parade. Marylanders arrive to cheers. Virginia Daughters join United Daughters, while crooks Johnny O Brien and Ed O Connor are arrested. In other news, Spanish American protocol debate fails in senate. A tidal wave and earthquakes in northern Japan drown about 27,000 and injure 8,000.
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Ricumoxo
Gordon
United Confederate Veterans
Bishop Newton
Committee On Credentials
G. D. Lee
Lee
Richmond
H. Kidd Douglass
Chicago
Virginia
The
Daughters of the Confederacy
United Daughters Organization
J. M. Curry
James R. Hobart
Baltimore
Maryland
Bland Seeks Silver Coinage As National Policy
Richard Parks Bland, Missouri’s presidential hopeful, returns from St. Louis and urges restoring free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio to gold. He argues open U S mints would spur global adoption, boost trade and prosperity, and dominate the Democratic convention and fall election race.
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Lesanoy
Richard Parks
Bland
Missouri
St. Louis
United Ms
Dng
United States
Delegates Arriving From States In Chicago Delegations
In Chicago delegates from North Dakota Michigan Alabama and Georgia are arriving. North Dakota plans a Palmer House HQ but will move to the Sherman House while Michigan delegates press for access and question talks remain unrevealed. Georgia favors Boies with Bland as backup. Alabama leans to Mathews with Bland a second choice. Mississippi delegates reportedly back Bland despite Money’s claim for Boies. Indiana keeps a Mathews HQ.
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Alabama
Dakota
Michigan
Chicago
Chica
North Dakota
Palmer House
Sherman House
Free Silverites
Georgia
Boies
Matthewa
Indiana
Bland
Missouri
John B. Knox
State Central Committee
Mathews
Money
Mississippi
Silver Dick
Matthews
Altgeld and Stone Confer on Democratic Convention Plan
Governors Altgeld and Stone met at the Sherman house with leading Democrats to outline actions for the national convention and the temporary organization. The session drew a guarded door policy, and while talk linked Altgeld to permanent chairman, his allies said he would not accept the role.
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Cucaco
Altgeld
Stone
Sherman House
Railroads in Chicago Prepare to Carry Crowds
Railroads centering in Chicago are making active preparations to handle large crowds. Early reports indicate extensive measures, with crews and equipment readied for expected transportation surges during peak crowds in the Windy City.
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Windy City
Chrcago
Railroads Prepare for Convention Crowd In Chicago
Railroads anticipate a steady influx of supporters for the convention with trains scheduled from St. Paul Fremont Detroit Saginaw and Kansas City. Chicago Great Western will run four special trains Monday including three carrying Boies supporters and escort for Governor Boies. Major lines like Grand Trunk Lake Shore Michigan Central and Erie plan multiple arrivals Sunday night into Chicago to help handle the anticipated crowds.
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Chicago Great Western Road
Boies
St. Paul
Minnesota
Chicago
Horace Boies
Northern Pacific
Burlington
Wabash
Grand Trunk
Detroit
Saginaw
Michigan State Democracy
Lake Shore
Michigan Central
Erie
Santa Fe
Kansas
Territories
Debate Over Abrogating the Two-Thirds Rule in Chicago
In Chicago on July 1 a potential push to abolish the two-thirds rule gains momentum as Illinois signals the stance. Supporters argue the rule is undemocratic and should be scrapped, while opponents say it would be unnecessary if silver forces win two-thirds by nomination time. The matter may pivot at the opening of the convention with temp organ and rites committee actions shaping the debate.
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California Fig Syrup Co
United States
Ite
Chicago
Hale
Illinois
Altgeld
Committee On Rites
Silver Committee
Stacey
Washixaton
Charles Stacey
Ohio Volunteers
Gettysburg
Thas
Wong Kk
Mt. Louis
St. Louis
Dick" Cooley
Louis Browns
Philadelphia
Lucky Turner Sullivan
Turner
St. Paul
Sullivan
Hobart Visits McKinley at Canton Home
Governor McKinley meets vice presidential nominee Garrett A Hobart at his Canton New Jersey home. The informal encounter occurs at Fort Wayne station with a modest carriage welcome and a large crowd, but no public demonstration is planned. Also notes the death of ex Senator Lyman Trumbull in Chicago and North Carolina Democrats holding their state convention in Bateson with 05 counties represented.
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Caunton
Cantox
Mc Kinley
Fort Wayne
Garrett A. Hobart
Paterson
N.J
Samuel
Ace
Melkinley
Mr. Hobart
McKinley
Trumbull
Chicago
United States
Lyman Trumbull
North Carolina
Bateson
Pan
Theodore F. Klutts
Teme
Brian Wpece
Warning Circular Sparks Cuban Exodus Threat
Cuban arrivals in New York report a warning circular urging Cubans to abandon the island during summer explosions said to be set by dynamite. The note, dated June 15 in Spanish on tissue paper, circulates around Havana as Spain readies for wider action.
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New Yor
Herald Bays
Saratoga
Havana
Cuba
Spain
Lexvos
Standard
Madrid
Chamber of Deputies
Island
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St. Shion Island
Allen & Sheffield
Forsyth Street
Americus, GA
General Douglass
Senate
Comas
Yokoyama
Japan
U.S. Gov't
Hobart
M’kinley
Garerison
Natalia
Juann’ Jova
Sagna la Grande
Jose Luis Roban
Quemado de Caines
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