Illinois Prohibitionists nominate state ticket at Springfield
The Illinois Prohibition convention in Springfield nominating Robert Ro Link for governor and James Lamont for lieutenant governor also named James B. Killam for secretary of state and other officers. The platform calls for free public schools, open minting of gold and silver, government control of railways, graduated income tax, suppression of trusts, universal suffrage with protections, and end to alien land ownership. It also endorses direct election of U S senators, a civil Sabbath, and pension for Union veterans.
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Springfield
Strixarne
P. I
Robert Ro Link
Franklin County
James Lamont
Winnebago
James B. Killam
Samuel D. Noe
Vermilion
S. Marshall
Marion
Alonzo P. Wright
Woodford
State University
Albert G. Jepson
St. Clair
Car
Johann
Levi T. Regan
Ook
James Fetter
Sangamon
F. GB. Andrews
Whiteside
Tiiinofa
God
Illinois
Supreme Court of the
United States
Ilinois
Delegates and Electors Named for National Convention
The list names electors from various communities including Monmouth Carrollton Havana Lincoln Paris Quincey Shelbyville Carlinville Ewing Ava and others. It also lists delegates at large Miss Francis G. Willard Evanston D H Harts Lincoln R R Link Ewing John W. Hart Rockford Ada H Kepley Rafingham James Felter Springfield Jacob Hoofstetler Sterling J B Hobba Chicago David McCullough Peoria Hale Johnson Newton.
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State Central Committee
H. §. Taylor
William Bentley
Charles L. Stevens
J. B. Hobbs
Co. W. Bailey
Geneva
John W. Hart
Rockford
T. EK. Andrews
Sterling
Highth
J. Ll. Donaghle
Streator
W. H. Boles
Eureka
J. G. Evans
Abingdon
L. FP. Gumbert
A. S&s W. Quincy
Robert TH. Patton
Springfield
A. F. Smith
Decatur
George Geere
Champaign
Hale Johnson
A. Z. Meek
Marissa
John Linn
McLeansboro
M. A. Smith
Vienna
Presidential Erectors
Firet
H. S Tuslor
Charles O. Carlson
Amiereon
Henry Ricke
N. &. Hein
Marvard
Severiih
A. Peck
Wonmball
Mighthmes L. Reber
Wheaton
Nin
C. H Tuesberg
Pontiac
David Ho Gray
Mimwood
N. Kirkpatrick
Monmouth
John Kruser
Carrollton
H. W. Mcfadden
Havana
A. W. Mouser
Lincoln
Horace Link
Paris
Henry B. Alley
Quincey
J. L. Dorethy
Shelbyville
Charles W. Bonner
Carlinville
W. Vaughn
Ewing
BE. A. Davis
Ava
John C. Pepper
Aledo
Samuel W. Packard
Chicago
James A. Watts
Nashville
Mason City
Francis G. Willard
Evanston
D. H. Harts
R. R. Link
Mra Ada H. Kepley
R& Fingham
James Felter
Jacob Hoofstetler
Three Men Taken from Custody and Hanged in Arkansas
News reaches Little Rock of a triple lynching on the road between here and Perryville. Charles Stewart, awaiting trial for assaulting a 10 year old girl, murdered Jailor Holmes and confessed that his uncles the McArthurs urged the killing to aid escape. A mob reportedly seized the three McArthurs from Sheriff Oliver. floods delayed confirmation.
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Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
Here
Perryville
Charles Stewart
Holmes
Oliver
McArthurs
Destructive Fire Destroys Sixty Moscow Homes
A June 1 blaze in Moscow rapidly consumed sixty houses in three blocks. Firefighters, unable to save the old structures, evacuated and attempted to confine the flames. Police and reserves quelled unrest amid rumors of nihilist involvement as the district burned itself out.
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Moscow
Moonshine figure James Kelly found murdered in Green River
The body of James Kelly a noted moonshine informant was found in Green River Kentucky with his head crushed. The 56 year old feared lawbreakers but aided federal officers and had recently turned informer. No official action will be taken.
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James Kelly
Louisville
Larue County
Green River
Kelly
Custom House
Mountain Dew
Illinois News Briefs Ring With Tragedy and Turmoil
A string of injuries deaths and crimes across Illinois includes Jesse Smith a youth of Sangamon county who killed himself near Fairfield after a troubled life and families, a spate of robberies near Queen's Lake, and a jail inmate John Marks who died by strychnine. Other items note a contested Fairmount incorporation, a hen peck that poisoned a girl, a rabid dog terrorizing Chicago, a river death by self harm, a fire at Garden Plain creamery, and a series of civic and industrial moves across Danville Freeport Danvers Pana and Morris.
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Wergeland
Norway
Chicago
John FE. Tuckett & Son
Plug Tobacco
Danville
Freeport
Dipsomania Sanitarium
V. Fifer
William R. Willis
Pike County
G W. Ward
Macoupin County
Russell Hardy
Decatur
Moule
Belleville
Julius Gaertner
William Izatt
A. Hilton
United Brethren Church
Danvers
Bloomington
Herman Fleischsig
Pana
Eighteenth Regiment
Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Benton
American
Millington
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank of Freeport
Naperville
Alex Mitchell
Morris
Wilson
Illinois
Mary Abrams
Christiansford
John Leddy
Davis Gillespie
Sumner
W. Shoemaker
Henry B. Shipley
Menard County
Petersburg
Lynched in New York for brutal assault on Miss MacMahon
A black man identified as Bob Jackson attacked Lena MacMahon in Port Jervis New York. A mob captured Jackson nine miles from town and hanged him at a tree after he confessed and implicated white man William Foley. Police seek Foley amid fears of a second lynching.
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Port Jravis
N.Y
Lena MacMahon
John MacMahon
Bob Jackson
Jackson
Port Jervis
William Voley
Miss MacMahon
Foley
Not One Found Alive From Birkenberg Mine Tragedy
Across June 3 reports describe over 100 bodies lifted from Birkenberg mine in batches of three with no survivors. Rescue teams faced smoke and heat as 120 pounds of dynamite in storage stirred panic. 150 bodies recovered and 280 still missing per Vienna dispatch.
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London
The
Chronicle
Vienna
Birkenberg
Reward Offered for Uncured Catarrh Case
Advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Various testimonials and druggists listed, with claims of cure and internal blood action. Includes unrelated notes on rheumatism, advertisements for Bitters, syrups, and theater notices.
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Hall
F. J. Cuessy & Co
Toledo
F. Cheney
West & Truax
Drusggists
Walling, Kinnan & Marvin
Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Promote Natural Body Balance
The copy promotes Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a natural, vegetable laxative that cleanses and renovates the entire system. It claims relief and lasting cure for headaches, digestive issues, and liver bowel derangements, with a money back guarantee and affordability.
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Dr. V Pierce
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