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Who Will Succeed Chief Justice Waite in 1888
Washington March 31 1888 reports the question of Waite’s successor dominates national interest. President Cleveland will choose the new chief justice with Dickinson or Carlisle touted as likely. Funeral of Waite, beet sugar plans by Claus Spreckles, and political shifts in the Democratic Party also appear in this dispatch.
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Washington, D. C
Waite
Cleveland
Supreme Court
Bayard
Mr. Cleveland
White House
Dickinson
Carlisle
House of Representatives
Toledo
Ohio
Claus Spreckles
California
California Sugar King, Who Is Now In This City, Told Commissioner of Agriculture
Coleman
Watsonville
Spreckles
W. H. Barnum
National Democratic Committee
Barnum
St. Louis
W. L. Stott
Pennsylvania
Senate Committee On Territories
Uinh
Moraion Church
International Council of Women
Grand Opera House