Pension Bills See Major Revisions and Costs
The House adopted the conference report on pension measures reducing service pension features and keeping widows and per-child aid. The new plan adds about 35 million annually, with $6 to $12 monthly depending on disability, and preserves only widow and child benefits from Morrill. Opposition grows to the Wilson package and broader anti‑prohibition moves face committee setbacks.
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WasHinetox
Conference Committee
House
Senate
Pew
Morrill
Wilson
Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court of the United States
Judge Hart
Vermont
Cuba
Protestant Convention in Chicago Debates Public Schools Immigration
Delegates of the American Protestant Association arrive in Chicago for the fortieth annual Grand Lodge convention at Lincoln Hall. The group, numbering about 35,000, plans to endorse a proposed sixteenth amendment to restrict church establishment and support school separation. John Wilson of Pittsburgh presides as discussions focus on public schools immigration and a broader national council.
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Chicago
Curiaco
American Protestant Association of
United States
Grand Lodge of the Order
Lincoln Hall
Philadelphia
Congress
John Wilson
Pittsburgh
Colored Men Gather to Form National Civil Rights League
A national conference of colored men will open June 23 at Quinn Chapel Chicago to organize a civil rights league. The plan aims to unite the race for advancing interests across states, with focus on improving conditions in the South and opposing wrongs against African Americans. The group emphasizes a permanent, action oriented organization for the colored people.
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Chicago
Civil Rights League
Curiaco
Conference of
Colored Men of the
United States
Quinn Chapel
Union
Fatal gas explosion kills two in Allegheny City dwelling
Mrs. Kipp, 70, and her 16 year old granddaughter died when a natural gas explosion in the cellar of their Allegheny City home yesterday morning leveled part of the house. The tragedy followed by a fatal freight train collision two miles south of Joliet on the Santa Fe line, engineer J. H. Helms killed and wreckage described as a bed open.
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Allegheny Ciry
Kipp
Joust, DL
Joliet
Genta Fe
J. H. Helms
Voted Against Union in New Yoak Synod Meeting
June 12 report from New Yoak says the Synod of the church voted against union. The article notes a division on organizational alignment and references the vote outcome.
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Synod of the
Ee Eee Ee Chereb Haa
Senine
Uniou
O Briens Bride Ceremony At Brompton Oratory
William O'Brien M P and Sophie Raffalovitch wed at the Brompton Oratory with Archbishop Croke presiding and Cardinal Manning delivering the Benedict. Fifty Irish party figures and noted guests attended as a French Jewess bride, heiress to a Paris banker, joined in a union aiding the Irish cause.
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Obrien
London
William O'Brien
Sophie Raffalovitch
Brompton Oratory
Cashe
Cardinal Manning
John Dillon
Irish Parliamentary Party
Parnell
Jacob Bright
Shaw Lefevre
Gladston
Oratory
O'Brien
France
Champs Elysee
Europe
Raffalovitch
Paris
Warren & Co. Board of Trade Suspends Amid Wheat Selloff
Chicago on June 12 reports the firm Robert Warren & Co. suspended after piling long wheat, with July futures at 880 and a 2 percent drop. Liabilities are about 500000 dollars while assets are roughly equal.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Robert Warren & Co
Warren
Fuchs on Trial for Wisconsin Wife Murder and Germany Robbery Claim
AsHLAND Wisconsin June 1 Joseph Fuchs stood trial for the murder of his wife amid claims by the state that he also robbed a German mail coach and killed a female passenger years ago. Eye witnesses say he stabbed his wife with a rusty pocket knife and left it in her breast before disposing of the body in a swamp. The defense contends the suspect is not the man sought.
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Ashland
Wis
Joseph Fuchs
Germany
Fuchs
Consolidation Plan for Cook County Government Referred
A Cook County resolution proposing unified government for village township city and county into one Chicago municipal system is sent to a county board committee. The measure faces potential agitation and possible State Legislature action, despite a Runaway Team incident. Oswego NY reports Miss Belle Mitchell and her sister-in-law Mrs Edward Mitchell thrown from a carriage by a runaway, with a marriage intended soon.
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Caicava
Cook County
Chicago
Oswsee
N. Y
Misa Belle Mitchell
Edward .V. Mitchell
Tenn
Three French Boys Drowned in River at Bipperorp
Three French boys aged 6 5 and 16 were drowned when their boat capsized in the river at Bipperorp Me Tuesday. The incident followed a day marked by violent events in Louisville where a woman Weéls was killed and her companion injured amid political turmoil in Carrollton with 206 ballots cast for a House successor to Carlisle and Dickerson leading.
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Louisville
Carrollton
Carlisle
Hallam
Dickerson
Bipperorp
Daring diamond theft shocks city in broad daylight
A well dressed man robbed Snourds Kaspery jewelers at State and Randolph in Chicaco, taking three large diamonds worth about 1200 dollars before fleeing into a crowd. A separate dispatch from New Orleans reports a massive San Antonio rain storm lasting twenty four hours causing crop and property damage across the region.
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Snourds & Kaspery State
Randolph
New Orleans
San Antonio
el Paso
Culprits Brought Back From Cuba in Major Robbery Case
New York June 12 detectives returned Robert Wallace and J B Lowitz who face charges of robbing Wallace's Monthly proprietor of 50000 dollars. Wallace is the robbed man's nephew and the defendants were brought back from Cuba.
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New York
Robert & Wallace
J. B. Lowitz
Wallace
Cuba
Mexican rebel leader Alvarez Cortez arrested in Guerrero revolt
The city of Mexico reports that Alvarez Cortez, who styled himself General and led a recent revolt in Guerrero, has been arrested and will be brought to trial.
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City of
Mexico
Alvarez Cortez
Guerrero
Cyclone Hits Channahon Illinois No Lives Lost
A report of a cyclone damaging Channahon on the Dt Page river west of Joliet created early excitement but was later found exaggerated. The storm toppled trees and outbuildings, wrecked John Drew’s barn and killed three horses, while H Driscoll’s home was partially unroofed and Au Sable saw shaken houses. The funnel cloud moved swiftly, lasting about three minutes.
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Channahon
Ill
Jones
Dt Page River
Here
Joliet
John Drew
David Drew
H. Driscoll
Au Sable
Destructive Fires Hit Russian Mining District and Death Toll Rises
Reports from St Petersburg detail massive fires in the Urals destroying Uraleisk iron works and hundreds of dwellings. About 40 people died and 15,000 were rendered homeless as schools churches hospitals and magazines burned. In the same issue Kennedy Biscuit Co joins a large eastern trust. A new plant may cost at least 600 600. General Neal Dow opens the National Temperance Congress in New York City urging prohibition. The session addresses state and national temperance aims.
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Ural Mountains
Uraleisk
Cracker Trust
Curcaco
Kennedy Buscuit Company
Desplaines Street
Kennedy Company
New York
Broadway Tabernacle
Neal Dow
National ‘Temperance Congress
Growing Crops A Weathered Outlook From June Returns
Government agricultural data shows wheat area down overall with only Kansas and Oregon increasing winter wheat. Spring wheat up except in Wisconsin and Dakota, total wheat area down nearly 1.75 million acres from last year. Winter wheat condition slips from 80 to 78.1 while oats, barley, rye, and clover areas and conditions are given.
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Department of Agriculture
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Oregon
Wisconsin
Dakota
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
California
Iinois
Texas
Michigan
Missouri
Rioters Threaten Columbus Street Cars In Labor Standstill
Columnus Ohio June 12 The Columbus Consolidated Street Railway again tried to move cars at 10 am but crowds blocked tracks with stones and rubbish. Strikers influence drew workers from leading manufactories to halt operations. The mayor ordered arrests as tension rose and warned of possible military action to restore service.
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Columnus
Columbus Consolidated Street Railway
Street Railroad Company
Columbus
Head of Husband Proved Deadly Cause Trial Shocked Court
In Youngstown Ohio on June 12 Mrs. John Valentine lost a suit to recover 11000 life insurance policy from her deceased husband who died a year earlier. The defense argued his death was self inflicted. The wife had the body exhumed and the head cut off to show the cause of death, resting on counsel’s desk as it decayed. Also reported: John Vandam of Grand Rapids slept for ten days before dying, a brain disease noted. Las Cruces New Mexico reports 100 smallpox deaths as the outbreak continues.
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Wasmineton
Senate Committee On Finance
House
Sme
Renate
Wasnincrox
Republcan
E. K. Valentine
Nebraska
Senis
W. P. Canaday
Valentine
West Point
Magee
Congress
Youngstown (D
Youngstown
John Valentine
Sept
Geano
Plead Guilty Led to Court Action Against Robart Nickle
A court proceeding details Robart Nickle pleading guilty to embezzlement from his employers. The article notes the guilty plea and subsequent legal steps as part of the case record.
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Robart Nickle
Pooch Gailty
Tramp Threatens Gun to Borrow Five Dollars
A New York Sun correspondent recalls a shabby traveler who asked a hotel landlord for five dollars in Des Moines. When refused he threatened to shoot himself, received the money, and a week later was found dead with a coroner’s inquest under way.
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Minois
New York Sun
Tam
Des Moines
Ife
Eagle Killed After Hours of Farm Fight in Pennsylvania
A farmer, Benjamin Shiffer of Tunkhannock in Monroe County, watched an eagle attack a lamb as a ram protected the flock. The bird fought the animals, injuring the ram and seizing the lamb before Shiffer struck the eagle with a fence rail, killing it. The lamb died. the eight-foot-four-inch wingspan creature collapsed.
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Pennsylvania
Benjamin Shiffer
Tunkhannock
Monroe County
Shiffer
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