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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1895
Page
3
A reunification ceremony in Chicago on Memorial Day featured former foes from the North and South laying garlands at graves at Oak Woods. Veterans, crowds, and officials observed a moment of unity ending years of bitterness. The event honored Secretary Gresham and American heroes who died for their country.
The dedication marks a memorial to thousands of Confederate prisoners who died in a Northern prison camp during the Civil War. Gen Wade Hampton delivered the address as victors honor the vanquished at Cottage Grove Avenue and Thirty fifth Street, a site once a wartime stockade now in Chicago.
Veterans of the Union army in New York celebrate the day of the desk with a Fifth Avenue parade highlighting the ravages of thirty years on volunteers. Ex President Morrison Gov McKinley Gov Morton and Mayor Strong review the march. Grant’s tomb services honor G A R posts with a memorial address. The cruiser Cincinnati salutes from the river while Ericsson statue is decorated. A Kansas City event announces a military encampment from Sept 30 to Oct 5.
The funeral for Walter Q. Gresham, famed Union general, jurist and Secretary of State, included a military ceremony at Oakwoods cemetery Chicago. Remains laid in receiving vault amid veterans and civic groups as a monument to North South reconciliation stood nearby.
Homer Fairman of the Chicago Cycling Club won the Chicago to Evanston and return road race of about twenty miles. Edwin Try was disqualified for not covering the full course. Fairman’s time was 54 36. George Emerson of Englewood Wheelmen took second and the time prize with 24.
Delegates gathered in Zanesville for the Ohio Republican State convention as Gen Asa Bushnell was urged for Governor and J B Foraker for U S Senator with William McKinley favoring the presidential ticket. The packed hall of 5000 heard praise for past wins and anticipation of future triumphs.
Tributes from multiple papers reflect on Secretary of State John Gresham the diverse roles he played as soldier jurist and statesman while noting his hostility to growing corporate influence and his honesty and duty in public service.END OF LINE
Chicago Inter Ocean and Chicago Herald report the Utah constitutional draft to be voted in November includes a prohibition on polygamy, woman suffrage, a system of eight jurors per trial, trial by jury in most cases, and a provision for a school system seen as advancing education and governance in the forthcoming statehood.
The passage notes mixed international reactions to Japan and Russia over China. It cites varied editorials from Chicago Tribune New York Advertiser and New York Times, critiquing Russia’s stance and Japan’s handling, while contrasting U S sympathy with global power dynamics. The text sketches a tug of war among major powers and calls recent history into question.
Quotes from Washington Star Chicago Post Globe Democrat and Boston Globe debate Britain’s conduct in the Nicaragua matter, calling it arrogant and cowardly and likening it to a bully’s behavior toward a smaller nation. Also notes the death of prominent Alabama criminal lawyer Gel Goldsmith W. Drewitt at 61 from heart neurology and a trolley strike cost for Knights of Labor Assembly No. 75 in New York.
Open call for articles on taxation with emphasis on land value effects. Authors should send well written concise pieces to the Buffalo office or 10 Lock Street Buffalo N Y for consideration.
A Stony Point reader argues against personal property taxes, claiming they drive property away and fail to be fair. He contends taxation shows richer owners benefit from real estate values while personal assets are taxed elsewhere, and abolition would boost capital, employment, wages, and overall prosperity.
TGS. Lament Pattton argues that taxing bank shareholders rather than banks themselves sharpens currency shortages and harms the public. He notes banks’ public reporting keeps stock values transparent, while excessive local taxes deter branch banks, urging abolition of personal property taxes to settle the currency question.
In his inaugural speech Belfast Maine Mayor Edgar E Hanson opposes an unequal tax system that taxes the poor while the wealthy escape through abatements. He favors low tax rates to encourage manufacturing and relief for disabled veterans, while criticizing income tax rules that exempt landlords but tax renters.
An old column critiques taxation bias where rich men escape true personal tax while poorer residents are overburdened. It recounts how assessors privately pressure affluent individuals to reduce their listed wealth and questions shifting tax burdens to renters. A gentleman’s champagne basket prompts debate over personal property and souls as taxable assets.
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