Palmer boom sparks party clash at Illinois state convention
At Springfield on the Illinois state Democratic convention day the split centered on loyalty to Palmer or Cleveland and shifting the national delegates. The hall filled with delegates and spectators as Temporary Chairman J R Williams opened proceedings praising tariff views and denouncing the McKinley Act.
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Springfield
Ills
Cleveland
Palmer
John P. Altgeld
J. R. Williams
Convention Nominates Altgeld Backed Leaders Amid Turmoil
The convention approved Altgeld aligned ticket with Clayton E Crafts as permanent president after heated debate. Key votes favored Altgeld with 561 for, 185 for Black, and others for Neece Hunter and Phelps. Palmer was endorsed conditionally, and the platform supported tariff reform, gold standard, and labor arbitration while denouncing compulsory education and prison labor.
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Cleveland
Convention Ends Without Final Decision On Key Planks
The report notes the truck system and weekly cash wage pay favors, opposition to liquor plank interference with individual rights, and endorsement of Palmer. The convention adjourned sine die.
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Palmer
State Ticket Nominated and Delegates at Large Appointed
The Ohio Republican state convention in Cleveland nominated a state ticket with S. H. Taylor for secretary of state and William T. Spear J. F. Burkett as supreme court justices, plus Captain J. B. Allen as supreme court clerk. Delegates at large to Minneapolis were McKinley Foraker Hahn and Kushner, with two Sherman and two Foraker supporters.
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Cleveland
McKinley
Resolutions Committee
Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Europe
S. H. Taylor
Sherman
Supreme Court
William T. Spear
J. F. Burkett
J. B. Allen
Minneapolis
Foraker
W. M. Hahn
Asa Kushner
Republican State Convention Nominates Warner for Governor
In Jeffeston on April 24 the Republican state convention adjourned sine die after sessions from Wednesday morning and into yesterday. It endorsed President Harrison’s administration, selected a full state ticket, and nominated Major William Warner for governor with delegates at large to Minneapolis: Warner, C. I. Filley, RR. C. Kerens, and A. C. Dawes.
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Jeffeston City
Harrison
William Warner
Minneapolis
Major Warner
C. I. Filley
RR. C. Kerens
A. C. Dawes
Delegates Clash Over Seating at Methodist Conference
Omaha May 3 delegates to the twenty first quadrennial Methodist Episcopal conference met at Boyd's theater Bishop Bow man presiding The lay delegates fought for separate seating from clergy after a spirited debate clerical consent carried 162 135 105 61 with a 4 p m recess granted Secretary Monroe chosen for permanent post over Dr Hartzell in a session attended by over 500 delegates including Dr Moulton of England and Mrs Merrill and other prominent figures
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Omaha
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Boyd’s
Bowman
Chaplain McCabe
Payne
Bishop Merrill
Bishop Ninde
A. F. Chamberlain
Colorado
Bishop Newman
M. A. Clafflin
Evans
P.S. Merrill
Newman
Bishop Foss
Monroe
Hartzell
Moulton
England
Weekday Briefs and Disasters Across North America
News notes report varied events from May 3 including locust ravages in north Africa and widespread spring strikes. Damaging incidents are listed: a forestry building fire at the World’s Fair grounds, a Winnipeg opera house fire with $125000 loss, and a vessel sunk near Rondeau with $85000 value. A Texas teen’s suicide follows heartbreak, and a Texas sheriff’s spree prompts arrest. Pennsylvania railways declare a 3 percent dividend. A Central New York collision at Churchville kills an engineer and destroys 25 cars from an oil-car fire.
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North Africa
Jesus Campeche
City of
Mexico
Katie Cognshall
Texas
Moody & Sons
Terre Bonne
Que
Pennsylvania Railway
Prince's Opera House
Winnipeg
Russia
Lackawanna
Rondeau
Lake Erie
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Luna
Searcy County
Texarkana
New York Central
Churchville Station
W. H. Jones
Buffalo
Chicago Board of Trade quotes and Union Stock Yards prices
Chicago market roundup May 2 shows Wheat with May at 80 cents, June and July at about 81.54 and 84.56 cents, Corn around 40.40 and 34.14 cents, Oats near 83 and 28.4 cents, Park wheat around 9.40 to 9.60 dollars, Lard at 6.15 to 6.24 dollars. Live stock prices at Union Stock Yards list hogs trading 3.70 to 4.60, cattle from 1.40 to 7.00, and sheep from 4.80 to 5.75. Butter 22 cents, eggs 13 cents, poultry 6 to 18 cents, potatoes varied, apples from 2.00 to 3.20 per bushel. East Buffalo cattle sale notes 160 loads, market dull and lower by 25 to 40 cents.
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Chicago
Board of Trade Today
Union Stock Yards
Texas
Hebrons
Burbanks
Rose
East Buffalo
Colored Brother Secures First Seat in Crete Exposition
In Exposition hall the session opened with seat wrangling over a lay delegate seating plan. Rev. R. E. Gilham of Missouri claimed the best seat amid laughter as drawing of lots continued and F. J. Young protested shenanigans with the hat. Delegates adjourned after a lively day and later were welcomed at a reception by Omaha city officials with speeches on Our Guests and Ourselves and Western Methodism.
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Merrill
Exposition Hall
Thickiey
R. E. Gilham
Missouri
Shennanigan
F. J. Young
North Dakota
Newman
Omaha
George P. Bemis
Davis
H. D. Estabrook
Jacob Fawcett
National Legislature Deliberates on Pacific Railways and Diplomacy
In Washington April 27 30 2 4 the Senate discussed Morgan silver resolutions and Pacific railway issues with Coke and Presidents replies on monetary conference. The House debated the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill cutting staff and funding.
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Washington
Senate
Coke
House
United States
Union Pacific Railway Company
Southern Pacific Company
Jones
Arkansas
Allison
Platt
Venezuela
Denmark
Chipman
West
Search for victims continues after Philadelphia theatre fire
A careful search is under way for bodies and items from the Central theatre fire. A preserved gold bracelet linked to a missing woman was found, and two dogs belonging to company members were recovered. The bodies of Thomas Lorella Sarah Goldman and Vincencie Chitten were recovered close together. two other victims burned beyond recognition, possibly Mrs Lorella, were found yesterday.
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Philadelphia
Central Theatre
Thomas Lorella
Sarah Goldman
Vincencie Chitten
Lorella
Fire destroys Colby academy at New London New Hampshire
A week’s history item reports Colby academy in New London destroyed by fire. Other notes include Confederate Memorial Day observed in the south, trades strikes in Detroit and Collinsville, Illinois, and various political and social events across the nation.
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Colby Academy
New London
N. H
South
William Astor
William Waldorf Astor
Paris
Detroit
Jefferson City
Denver
Colo
Cleveland
Kearney
Neb
Lytle Coal Company
Pottsville
Senate
Coke
Vexas
Democratic Party
Odd Fellows
United States
Order
General Electric
New York
John Goode
Behring Sea
Sam
Cook County
Sunday School Association
Chicago
Wyoming cattlemen pursue horse thieves in frontier killings
Wyoming cattlemen tracked two horse thieves and killed them in a frontier incident. The report notes violent justice amid ranching life and ongoing law and order concerns across the region.
May Day Parade in Chicago Ends Peacefully
May Day demonstrations in Chicago were peaceful with about 5 000 participants in the parade. Police seized two red flags and arrested their bearers as 1 500 officers watched along the march route while lake front meetings drew large crowds.
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Chicago
Lake Front
Notable figures linked to cities worldwide in a partial roster
A fragment lists various prominent individuals by name and location including Theophilus Wademan publisher in Boston, Bradley early Chicago settler, Darwin Forbes Grinnell IA, Charles Hogan Chicago designer, Lord Catlemaine London, General Jacob Sharpe Detroit, Captain John Keelin Chicago lake man, George Taintor Boston graphophone inventor, Jane Wayman Chicago pioneer, Husgen Berlin engineer, Judge Joel Holt Oklahoma Guthrie, Robert Patterson Philadelphia harbormaster, General William Wells New York, Rev J W Lambuth Kobe, Sir Alexander Hoop London, Rev M L Weakly Berlin PA, Augustus Kountze New York banker, Henky Dietch Elkhart IN.
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Charles Hogan
Chicago
Lord Castlemaine
London
Jacob Sharpe
Detroit
John Keelin
George Taintor
Boston
Jane Wayman
Husgen
Berlin
Joel Holt
Oklahoma
Guthrie
Robert S. Patterson
Philadelphia
William Wells
Vermont
New York
J. W. Lambuth
D.D
Kobe
Japan
Alexander Hoop
M. IL
Weakly
United States
Augustus Kountze
Henky Die
Tch
Elkhart
Ind
Fire and Financial Scandals Highlight 19th Century News
Nashville insurance rates rise twenty cents per hundred and higher rates for tall buildings. Hudson Ohio loses its business district to a devastating fire. Two women die in a blaze that destroys the Cayuga flat in Albany. Ferdinand Ward, once called Napolean of finance, has completed a ten year Sing Sing sentence and is released. A duel is reportedly fought by Harry Vane Milbank following the Fox duel.
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Nashville
Hudson
Harry Vane Milbank
Lorrowe
Fox
Suppressed Sheridan Post Refuses Rustler Resolutions
The Sheridan Wyoming Post refused to publish rustler resolutions and was suppressed. Reports note widespread drought in southwestern Texas near the Rio Grande and a fatal accident east of Bonner's Ferry Idaho with several deaths. Also listed are political nominations and trials including J Frank Aldrich for Congress, Henry N Hoyt acquittal, and W W Downs slander verdict.
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Sheridan
Civil Service Reform League
Baltimore
George William Curtis
Texas
Rio Grande River
Henry M. Stanley
Great Britain
W. W. Downs
Bowdoin Square Baptist Church
Boston
Great Northern
Bonner’s Ferry
Idaho
Barcelona
Spain
Various 1900s items from May include shots at fort Logan and liquor trust
Monday items report Col Merriam scoring well at fifty yards with a 44 caliber revolver while a St Paul wrestling match ends with Mott defeating McHug. Other notes mention Gibson returning to Peoria, platinum discovery near Rapid City, a large lumber yard fire at Browning Missouri, Baron Hirsch’s turf profits to hospitals, Iowa students nominating Blaine, Ingersoll’s newspaper silence, and a syndicate planning a Wa bash paper mill with three hundred thousand dollars.
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H. C. Merriam
Fort Logan
Colo
Smith & Wesson
St. Paul
Mott
McHug
George G. Gibson
The
Whisky Trust
Peoria
Rapid City
Gibson Bros
Browning
Baron Hirsch
London
Iowa College
Mount Pleasant
James G. Blaine
Robert G. Ingersoll
Washington
Wabash
Lod
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Illinois Statesman
West Prairie State
Altgeld
Black and Hunter
Permanent Organization Committee
Clayton E Crafts
Crafts
Mr. Crafts
Tom Merritt
O’connor
Harry Donovan
Cook
John C. Black
Andrew Hunter
Neece
Phelps
Black
Hunter
Joseph B. Gill
Buck Hinrickson
Rufus M. Ramsay
David Gore
Maurice T. Maloney
A. KE. Stevenson
A. W. Green
C. E. Crafts
Ben T. Cable
N. E. Worthington
Walter Wilson
Bb. Chase
John A. King
John M. Palmer
Illinois
Alleghany Mountains
Ohio Republicans
National Legislature
Congress
A. B. Scott & Son
Jefferson County
Taple and Ancy Grocery
Queensware
Wela
Rose & Culdp
Packard
Burlington Organs
Chickering, Mehlin
J. M. Starr & Co
Rose & Culp
Milbank
Collinsville, Ill
Kk. F. Crane
First National Bank of Sterling,uls
Jud Cowling
Joseph Stockton
K. D. Tucker
Arkansaw
Green Springs
Miss McDonnell
Brandon
W. E. Baine
Wyoming
St. Louis
Massachusetts
Lamar
United States Supreme Court
Ravachol
Chicago Atheneum
Charles Hartwick
Union Pacific Railway
Jay Gould
Gould
Theophilus Wademan
Masonic Monthly
Usaf
Bradley
Darwin Forrbes
Grinnell
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