City celebrates Independence Day with grand Greater Boston programme
Boston plans a full Fourth of July spectacle with a large city budget, parades, regattas, and district events across Boston Common Franklin Park and Ward areas. Cuban teachers arrive. Harvard entertainment dropped. crowds expected at Jamaica Plain Downer Landing and U S S McClellan dock.
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Faneuil Hall
Hart Pri
Harvard
United Clan-na-Gael
Downer Landing
Jamaica Plain
Carnival Association
Brookline
Greater Boston
Elliot Danforth a Strong Democratic VP Hope in New York
Elliot Danforth of New York, a longtime Democratic leader, mentored by Governor David B. Hill, and once deputy and state treasurer, was named lieutenant governor candidate in 1898. He married in December 1898 to Mrs. Richard Mott Laimbeer, with a son and a daughter.
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Danforth
New York
David B. Hill
Elliot Danforth
New York State
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Ineen
Justice van Wyck
Richard Mott Laimbeer
James Black
Frightful slaughter in Pekin as Boxers attack
Telegraphs from Washington report consular dispatches describing a Pekin massacre with mutilated bodies and severed heads mounted on spears. Consul Goodnow in Shanghai confirms June 29 violence and Boxers attacking Seymour's force, with further details continued on page two.
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Che Foo
Pekin
Seymour
Lumber Fire Destroys 2.5 Million Feet of Dressed Timber
Fire scorched 2,500,000 feet of dressed lumber with losses pegged at 100000 dollars. Adjoining properties were threatened but escaped. Everett Piano Co. narrowly avoided damage as Captain Hibbard of Engine 21 was struck by a falling electric light pole and firefighters were overcome by smoke.
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Everett Piano Co
Hibbard
Last Night's Fire Destroys Leatherbee Lumber Yard
A major blaze gutted the C. W. Leatherbee Lumber Company yard at 520 Albany Street last night as four alarms rang out. Loss pegged at 100000 and insured, with 3,000,000 feet of lumber burned. Captain Hibbard of Engine 21 injured. horses saved though wagons and harnesses perished. Authorities suspect tramp involvement. fire attributed to unknown cause. The plant included offices, sheds, a two acre yard, and a wharf on South Bay. nearby firms narrowly escaped. The blaze began around 8:30 p m and prompted emergency response from Box 71 and Chief Webber.
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Albany Street
Hibbard
E. F. Meaney
Freestone and Marble Works
Thomas & Pike
Lee
Station 5
Albany and
Dedham Streets
Webber
Bryan Heads to Democratic Convention in Kansas City
Kansas City July 3 Bryan plans to attend the Democratic national convention after formal invitation. Eliot Danforth of New York emerges as a strong vice presidential candidate while New York's John W. Kellar is floated and Sulzer backs Danforth. The New York delegation debates picking a VP and possible strategies amid party maneuvering.
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Eliot Danforth
New York
New York State
John W. Kellar
Charities
City of
David B. Hill
Committee On
Augustus van Wyck
Danforth
Philadelphia
T. L. Woodruff
Kellar
Towne
Sulzer
Mr. Kellar
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