Wyoming Statehood Prospects Promoted by Concessions
Delegate Carry explains Wyoming’s statehood measure has gained a favorable position after concessions to pass certain appropriation bills and the agricultural college bill. Senator Platt leads the effort, urging prompt action as end-of-year finances demand deadlines.
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F. A
Leek
Gheyenne
Wyo
WasttinGrun
Wycoming
Agricultural College
Wyoming
Platt
New Mexico
Joweru M. Carey
Uncle Bob Wins Historic American Derby at Washington Park
Forty thousand spectators at Washington Park witnessed Uncle Bob son of Luke Blackburn win the great American Derby in a muddy, eagerly watched race. Good Bye led early but Uncle Bob surged ahead in the stretch to finish two lengths in front of Santiago with Kingsbury and Jed following as others faltered. The prize for the winner included $1,800, with total purses and details reflecting the era’s betting and horse racing culture.
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Washington Park
Uncle Bob
Luke Blackburn
Ben Kingsbury
Jed
Mount Lebanon
Sunnybrook
Lucky Baldwin
Santiago
Oweepa
Good Bye
Kingsbury
Ian
E Randly
Barnes
Wire
Telfe Tees
Alsoo
Nashville
Fenn
Helle Meade
Bob
Meade
Chicago
Ash
Hankie
Derby Aber
Congress Debates Silver Bill And Tariff Aims
The House and Senate clash over silver coinage and related measures. McKinley moves to table Bland's appeal as parties split. votes show cross-party support. Bills on education funds and public lands advance with amendments while an executive session ends the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Crisp
Morrow
Bartine
Perkins
Kansas
Henderson
Towa
Ailver
Conger
Iowa
United States
Connell
Nebraska
McKinley
Bland
Yeas
de Haven
Hermann
Kelly
Townsend
Funston
Buckalew
Dunphy
Fitch
Garesenhainer
Maish
McAdoo
Mutch
Utah
Butler
General of Education
Church of Psus Christ of the Latter Day Saints
Tler
Payne
Oorhees
Pontpors
Edmunds
Supreme Court
Voorhees
Waite
Washington Monument
Senate
Revolution in Mexico Report Advances in Guanajuato Uprising
A Times dispatch from Mexico City cites an uprising in Guanajuato seen as the start of a broader revolutionary movement. Government censorship blocks wire details, but signs of unrest and a looming crisis are noted, with fears that Dia may declare himself dictator within a year if the revolt fails to gain strength.
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Curcaco
Mexico
Guanajuato
Dia
Republic
Guananato
Elnment
Russia to honor Alaska purchase assurances
A Times Washington dispatch reports from a reliable source that the president and secretary of state have received positive assurances from Russia that it will back representations made during the Alaska purchase. The Behring Sea is to be treated as closed, and U S cooperation with Russia could be secured to enforce this doctrine. Blaine's views are not known.
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Mnesia
Cuicaoo
Times
Washington
Russia
Alaska
Behring Sea
United States
Blaine
Harvard Triumph Over Yale In Wet Stadium
The Harvard Yale football clash drew about 10,000 spectators in heavy rain with Harvard scoring four to Yale's three, in a tense finish.
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Harvard
Yale
Ore
Cyclone Leaves Paw Paw in Fatal Ruin
Illinios village Paw Paw suffers a deadly cyclone with fourteen killed and many injured within two miles. The Hunt schoolhouse is demolished killing the teacher Maggie McBride and eight pupils. Destruction spans Harmon, Lee County to Doublet and Compton with total losses around 100000 dollars.
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James Blee
Hunt School
Maggie McBride
Amboy
Harmon
Lee County
Compton
Paw Paw
Misunderstanding over sugar market openness debate
A Washington observer states the room discussion was misread, clarifying it concerned the Blaine criticized plan to grant a free sugar market without ensuring reciprocal free markets for American farm products. He notes Corn would fetch 18 cents a bushel in Nebraska if Latin American markets were open.
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Washington
Committee On Appropriations
Blaine
United States
Nebraska
Sugar certificates dive after anti-trust bill vote
New York June 12 holders of sugar certificates faced a stunned crowd as the house adopted the conference report on the anti trust bill. Brokers gathered on the floor before opening, then offered certificates when the gavel fell. By close of business a 7.54 percent decline was recorded.
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New York
Exc
French Artists Outcry as Tariff Bill Lifts Art Duty
June 2 report from Paris notes merchants and officials worry over US import regulations. The American Senate committee removes the tariff clause that placed works of art on free duty, triggering outcry in government and artistic circles and talk of retaliation.
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Paris
United States
Chamber of Deputies
Co Committee
Hebron Mason Thrown From Hotel Window
L. G. Secrest of Hebron was hurled from a third story window of the Merchants hotel in Omaha around 2 o'clock this morning and fatally injured. J. Werner, Secrest's roommate from Hebron, says he threw him during a nightmare following a quarrel over the Scottish Rite degree as both men attended a state grand lodge session.
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Omaha
L. G. Secrest
Hebron
Merchants Hotel
J. Werner
Secrest
State Grand Lodge
Census totals put Philadelphia at 1,040,449 in 1900
The Philadelphia census returns nearly complete and the district supervisor reports a city population of 1,040,449, an increase of 193,270 over the one billion figure cited in prior estimates.
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Philadelphia
Union Pacific Sues Over Lumber Purchase Fraud
Attorney for Union Pacific filed in federal court against C. H. McKibben former general purchasing agent for 60 000 alleged stolen through fraudulent lumber purchases. McKibben left for the east last week and all his property is attached.
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Union Pacific
Oman
C. H. McKibben
McKibben
East
Pension controversy dominates Senate debate on disability bill
The Senate debated the conference report on a dependent pension bill with Berry and Gorman clashing over costs. Ingalls urged prompt action and West warned of pension system abuse. The bill faced heavy opposition from northern lawmakers while removal of arrears provisions was advocated. The conference report was agreed to 34 to 15 and a fortifications conference was ordered.
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Washington
Berry
3An
Treasury
Thorn
Davis
Gorman
Blaine
Ingalls
Senate
West
Indiana
United States
Turpye
Pension Bureau
Hawley
Dawes, Plumb and Gorman
Senate approves Utah test oath replacement in territoires bill
The senate committee on territories plans to report Cullom’s new test oath bill for Utah replacing the Ed Munds Tucker act. It would be indefinitely new and adopt the bill to ensure election purity in Arizona and Utah. The bill mirrors the Idaho oath sustained by the supreme court. A Sidney, N S W reports dispute over Stanabury beating O’Connor in a Canadian sculling race.
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Washineton
Senate Committee On Territories
Cullom
Utah
Senate
Arizona
Idaho
Supreme Court
Family Feud Ends in Fatal Shootings in Kansas
A. E. Coe shoots Nathaniel Ariglin in a field then wounds Adrian Ariglin, kills his wife, and fatally shoots himself. Coroner probes the bloody tragedy in Yates Centre, Kansas, as relatives contend with the feud origin.
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Kansas City
Yates Centre
Kas
A. E. Coe
Nathaniel
Adrian Ariglin
Coe
Adrian
Four Men Hung at Memphis
In Memphis on June 24 Parker Harris Ed Carr Hardy Ballard all Black and Frank Brenish White were hanged. Brenish objected to being hanged with Negroes. All four confessed and said they had made peace with God. Ballard killed a street car conductor while the others killed their wives. The three Black men necks broken. Brenish neck broken after whisky stupor.
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Memphis
Parker Harris
Ed Carr
Hardy Ballard
Frank Brenish
Brenish
Harris
Carr
Ballard
Fires Devastate Ward and Surrounding Mines in Colorado
Timber fires near Ward in Boulder county threaten the New Era Mining company shaft houses and mill and endanger Ward town with hundreds of residences and shops. Telegrams report forest fires across Conejos and the San Juan ranges and Palmer Lake area. Teamsters recount near misses amid burning woods as crews battle the flames amid dry weather.
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Denver
Ward
Boulder County
Conejese
San Juan Ranges
Aalabhon Hood
Palmer Lake
Bovutper
Colo
Adolph Traub
Tabor
Boston
Niwot
Appeals Court Affirms Warden for Kemmler Execution
The court of appeals affirms the Auburn prison warden as proper to execute Kemmler. It also disposes of the North River Refining case, dismissing the appeal with costs and upholding lower court judgments dissolving the trust. An earlier misprint in the decision was corrected, clarifying the full affirmation of the lower courts.
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Sararous
Cour of Appeals
Auburn Prison
Kemmler
Court of Appeals
North River Refining Company
Sugar Trust
Republican state convention nominates ticket in Juneau
The Republican state convention nominates Frane Amberg of Chicago for treasurer and Dr. Richard A. Edwards for superintendent of public instruction. Trustees of the state university were also nominated. The platform backs a free honest ballot and urges Australian ballot enactment and action against trusts to curb rising prices.
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Hillmois Hovmbiicans
Svainoview
Lil. Juneau
Frane Amberg
Chicago
Richard A. Edwards
State University
Political platform endorses fair shipping costs and hard money
The document attacks extortionate freight charges on farm products and opposes watered stock dividends. It backs a Republican platform, gold and silver money, liberal pensions, temperance, and Harrison's administration. It calls for compulsory public schooling with options for private education and reforms to supervision over private schools.
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Harrison
House of Representatives
Congress
Wyoming statehood fever fills Cheyenne real estate market
The piece notes Cheyenne awaits Wyoming’s statehood bill and predicts a real estate surge. It highlights a grand Leader edition plate by R. Caughey showing Interior Land and Immigration Co plans, Union Pacific yards with multiple shops, a street car viaduct, and a Crow Creek landscape near Interior Heights and Wyoming Normal College.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
Interior Land and Immigration Company
Leader
Union Pacific
R. Caughey
Warren
Capitol Avenues
Central Avenue
Eleventh Street
Interior Heights
Wyoming Normal College
Blacks Smith
Motive Power
Irrigation Grants Reported By Senate Committee
Senator Moody disclosed amendments to the Sundry Civil bill authorizing a 200000 dollar appropriation to study arid lands irrigation potential and another to fund surveys on eastern Rocky Mountain slopes. Senator Paddock urged a public land fire protection bill and Senator Allen proposed a further amendment to fund surveys in Washington Montana North and South Dakota.
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Washington
Senator Moody
Select Committee On Irrigation and Reclamation
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
Rocky Mountains
Senator Paddock
Senator Allen
Committee of Public Lands
Ely
Public Lands
Montana
South Dakota
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Bob Wiese
Congressional
Speaker Reed
Amnoy
Ill
Horseba
Peppy
Sidney
N.S. W
Stanabury
O'Connor
Tenn
Colorado
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