National Columbia Exposition Commissioners Open Meeting
The Columbian Exposition commissioners met in Curiaco to inaugurate the National commission. John T. Harris of Virginia was named temporary chairman as A T Ewing of Illinois opened proceedings and outlined aims to celebrate Columbus’s discovery, with a large slate of regional appointees listed for permanent organization and officer posts.
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Curiaco
United States of America
A. T. Ewing
Illinois
National Commission
Pacific Hotel
Dr. Barrows
Charles H. Deen
John T. Harris
Virginia
Judge Harris
America
Columbus
God
United States
Commission
Chicago
R. R. Price
Kansas
W. E. Curtis
McKinzie
Kentucky
Chauncey Deen
McKenzie
Ewing
Minois
McDonald
California
Smalley
Vermont
Cochran
Texas
Widener
Eben H. Brewer
Pennsylvania
United States Commission
Benjamin Butterworth
Ohio
Joan T. Dickinson
Potter Criticizes American Politics at Harvard Address
Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York spoke at Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa meeting, condemning political abuses and self interest driving party aims. He likened current politics to Rome's Praetorian guards auctioning the Empire.
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Harvard
Boston
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Henry C. Potter
New York
Praetorian Guards
Train-Load Plunges Into River Near Fort Edward
A Delaware and Hudson train bound for Lake George derailed on a bridge near Fort Edward and plunged into the river. The number of coaches and passengers is unknown as officials gather details and report the disaster.
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Fort Edward
Troy
Lake George
PICKED THEIR MEN Iowa Republicans Name State Ticket
The Iowa Republican State convention at Sioux City chose W. M. McFarland for Secretary of State on the second ballot, with J. A. Lyons for Auditor, B. A. Beeson for State Treasurer, and other nominations. The platform endorses Harrison, protection, currency expansion favoring silver, anti trust measures, and state police power protections. The State Central Committee list follows.
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Iowa
B. A. Beeson
Marshalltown
J. H. Rothrock
Supreme Bench
John Y. Stone
G. B. Bray
Supreme Court
N. B. Raymond
Polk
J. W. Luke
Franklin County
National Republican Party
Harrison
South
Democratic Party
Congress
State Central Committee
C. M. Junkin
Jefferson
J. M. Kemble
Muscatine
W. H. Norris
Delaware
J. E. Blythe
Cerro Gordas
George Lincoln
Lynn
B. A. Preston
Mahaska
Illinois Central Strike Persists Amid Tense Talks
Curiaco June 27 reports ongoing stalemate as Illinois Central officials refuse to meet striker demands. Prospects of spread along the line cited with police protection sought. freight conductors plan to return to work, risking conflict. Government warns of penalties for mail delays. A striker committee directs side-tracking of trains between here and Centralia and detaches passenger cars from two trains.
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Illinois Central
Curiaco
Illinois Central Company
Carro
Here
Centralia
Illinois Central Road
Kentucky Feud Leader Shot Dead by 17-Year-Old
Harve Turner, head of a Turner faction in the Turner L owners feud, was killed Tuesday night by 17 year old John Raines as he entered a Yellow Creek country grocery. The shooting followed a long family feud over a 3 year old murder. Turner was uncle of John Crook Turner, killed nearby ten days earlier by Will Turner, and the incident is seen as possibly ending the eight year feud.
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Kentucky
Minpressorouen
Icky
Harve Turner
Turner-Lowers
John Raines
Turner
Yellow Creek
Raines
John Crook Turner
Here
Will ‘Turner
Five Men Die in Ashley Boiler Explosion at North Star Mill
Ashley Michigan June 27 A boiler explosion wrecked the North Star gardener's stave mill killing four men outright and fatally injuring a fifth who died next morning. The dead are Fred Tucker Charles Brown Hiram Goodwin Costello of Green Bay Frank Gardener. The mill burned completely with stock and two loaded cars destroyed.
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Ashley
Mich
Gardener
North Star
Fred Tucker
Charles Brown
Hiram Goodwin
Costello
Green Bay
Wis
Frank Gardener
Lottery measure sustains charter with $1,000,000 yearly deal
In Baton Rouge a Louisiana House measure to submit a constitutional amendment on levees schools charities pensions drainage and lotteries includes a contract with Joh A Morris and associates for 1 million dollars annually for lottery privileges for twenty five years from January 1 1894. Also reports a guilty verdict in Hurley Wisconsin for the Iron Exchange Bank theft and notes other regional items.
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Asutano
Wis
Baker Cage
Phelps Perrin
Baker
Iron Exchange Bank
Hurley
Perrin
Amherst College President Seelye to Resign
Amherst Mass June 27 President Seelye of Amherst College has resigned to take effect at the close of the college year August 31. Other items include Good and Neroert employes drowned in a St Joseph river incident and Rockford population figures.
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Good
Neroert Law
Fort Wayne Electric Company
St Joseph River
Amherst
Mass
Seelye
Amherst College
RockFrorp
Rockford
Columbus
Joseph H. Outhwaite
Steubenville
Joseph E. Taylor
Census Sparks Population Figures For Denver And Cincinnati
The census reports Denver at about 120000 residents and Cincinnati at 280986. The Mississippi River rises amid the Tyne and ambulance scenes include a drowning near Waterloo Nebraska. The Baltimore and Ohio lawsuit for damages reaches Newark.
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Mississippi
Denver
Tennessee
Cincinnati
Waterloo
Neb
Charles Fairfax
Ida Bruce
Baltimore & Ohio
Frank Rafferty
Newark
George P. Manning
Peru
Ind
Illinois State Normal School
Normal
State Veterans’ Association of
Nebraska
John Blair
Sheffield
S. C
Jacksonville
George B. Stadden
Springfield
Illinois Sons of Veterans
A. T. Barnes
Bloomington
Ilinois Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities
Sullivan-Kilrain
Muldoon
Purvis
Miss
Cleary
Donovan
Sunstroke claims horses and a porter's life in heat wave
Reports from Indiana Kansas City and Crete describe extreme heat with multiple sunstroke deaths among horses in Columpus Freemont Davis's herd and workers at a Terre Haute building site. A Kansas City saloon shooting ends with suspect in custody. Crete sultan pardons minor common law prisoners with sentences under three years.
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Canga
Crete
Sperry Self-Destruction Shocks New Haven
Lucien W. Sperry, a prominent New Haven citizen and estate trustee, aged 7, shot himself yesterday over discrepancies in his accounts. The death occurred after a period of financial trouble cited by investigators.
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New Haven
Conn
Lucien W. Sperry
Markets Report Glazes Stocks and Commodities
Market notes show mixed activity with frugal demand across grains and meats. Wheat No 2 red near steady with slight gains, pork prices steady, lard and dairy steady, and poultry prices firm though quiet. Liquor prices steady as buyers watch July and September contracts.
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Oncaco
Bakers
Nblac
Fainyv
H.c
Bartay
Nemisal
Northwestern
Thin
Laru
New York
Live Stock Market Report from Chicago
Market activity was moderately active with prices showing little change. Quotations ranged for different cattle classes including shipping steers, cows, bulls, and veal calves, with feed prices and packing house sales also noted.
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Chicago
Womanly vanity and a woman’s urge to be well dressed
A New York Tribune interview reveals a frank view of female vanity in dressing. The speaker explains that adornment serves to attract and please men, noting bargains delight her and that public scorn can ruin a woman’s standing.
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New York Tribune
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Lorillard Spencer
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J. G. Coit
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Henry G. Hay
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Montgomery
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Minn
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Minneapolis
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