McKinley Nominated Committee Arrives in Canton
The notification committee arrives in Canton from St. Louis to inform Maj. McKinley of his Republican nomination. Senator Thurston delivers the formal address, praising protection and reciprocity while McKinley pledges to seek public good with support from fellow citizens. The party notes strong sectional differences on tariff and silver ahead of the election.
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Canton
St. Louis
Maj. McKinley
Cannon
Cleveland
Thurston
Gov. McKinley
United States
United Party
Mr. Thurston
America
National Republican Convention
McKinley
H. H. Smith
Michigan
Hobart
Far West
Alabama
C. D. Alexander
Mason and Dixon
Maryland
West Virginia
Kentucky
Missouri
Pope Encyclical Urges Christian Unity Under Peter
Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore reports Rome’s advance sheets on the pope’s encyclical calling all Christian organizations to unite under the successor of St Peter for safeguarding faith. The pope roots authority in Biblical warrant and insists the church guides all matters of Heaven, rejecting claims it meddles in civil affairs.
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Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Rome
Gladstone
Pope
St. Peter
Pittsburgh Mills Idle As 12000 Workers Sent Home
In McKeesport mass suspensions hit manufacturing with 12,000 workers out of jobs as National Tube Works and National Rolling Mills suspend operations. Only two butt-weld department mills stay open while rolling mills and wood plants face six to seven weeks idle. Braddock Wireworks also shuts down after a wire nail trust ruling.
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Pittsburgh
McKeesport
Butt-Weld Department
National Tube Works Company
National Rolling Mills
Consolidated Steel & Wire Company
Wire Nail Trust
Woman Kills Husband After Brutal Night Fight
Henderson Kentucky June 30 A colored farmhand Jim Anderson returned home drunk and assaulted his wife over unprepared supper. She seized an ax and swung fatally wounding him. The woman then told a neighbor with her four year old son and later rowed to Indiana shore. Antonio Cuneo Italian banker in New York suffering dementia left for Staten Island under care. He is said to be in acute demensia and near collapse. English Huron Dead London June 30 Francis William Fitzharding Berkeley second Baron Fitzharding died at 70.
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Henderson
Jim Anderson
West Franklin
Indiana
Antonio Cuneo
San Francisco
Mulberry Street
New York
Staten Island
Cuneo
London
Francis William Vfitzharding
Herkeley
Varon Fitzharding
Tle
Ex-Gov Boies backs party unity over national dishonor
Ex-Gov Horace Boies from Grundy county Iowa returns from his farm and weighs Whitney's claim on silver. He argues southern and western Democrats support the Chicago convention delegates and oppose free coinage opponents, insisting the party must not abandon its bimexport principles for a gold standard.
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Boles
Waterloo
Grundy County
Mllinois
Sked
Chicago
Boies
Grundy
County
Whitney
New York Herald
Tie
Republican Party
St. Louis
Democratic Party
Congress of the United States
United States
Horace Boies
Indiana Democrats Nominate State Ticket and Electors
Indiana Democrats nominate Gov. Shively and Lawson for major offices with appointees for judges and state posts. Platform backs bimetallism with full coinage of silver and gold at sixteen to one. Delegates to Chicago are instructed to vote as a unit for the party’s presidential nominee.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Chicago
R. A. Bell
Fort Wayne
Greensburg
Theo. J. Davis
Noblesville
O. J. Lotz
Muncie
George E. Ross
Logansport
S. M. Ralston
Lebanon
Joseph T. Fanning
Morgan Chandler
Greenfield
J. G. McNutt
Terre Haute
Supreme Court
Henry Warrum
W. G
Great Britain
Cuba
United States
Voorhees and
Turpie
Indiana
Mining boom a fizzle at Cook's Inlet leaves 3500 stranded
Port Downsend Washington June 30 The schooner Norma from Kodiak arrives with 35 stranded miners who declare the Cook's Inlet mining boom a fizzle. More than 5500 miners are stranded awaiting work as supplies run low. Manley declines GOP post Col Osborn eyed for national committee seat. World's W C T U to meet in Montreal next spring or autumn. Two women fatally hurt in Jersey City wreck. seven injured total. Fort Madison man L F Gemmett, city assessor, fatally shot by accidental gun discharge while hunting.
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Washington
The
United States
Cook's Inlet
Port Downsend
Wash
Norma
Kodiakata
Cook’s Inlet
Jersey City
N. J
Bayonne
Communipaw Avenue
Grand Street
Fort Madison
L. F. Gemmett
Minois
Trade Review on St Louis Plank Effect in Dun and Bradstreet
Dun and Bradstreet report the monetary outlook unclear as silver advocates gain influence. Textile mills pause output, several cotton mills sign for temporary stoppage, while woolens move independently. Iron and steel wages spark longer annual stoppages, while iron age trends push anticipated low prices. Pailutures rise cases and overall failures fall to 217 in the United States and 24 in Canada.
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St. Louis
Dun and Bradstreet
New York
Kh. G. Dun & Co
Fall River
Providence
Pacific
Lawrence
Naamkeng
Salem
United States
Canada
Peffer Rejects Teller Endorsement From Populists
Senator Peffer left Washington for home noting the Populist party should not endorse the Democratic ticket. He praised Teller personally but said the Populist group did not speak for the party and urged maintaining reform goals beyond money, including land tenure and labor issues.
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Washington
Peffer
St. Louis
Teller
Telier
Democratic Organization
Oopust
National Silver Party Holds Colorado State Convention
Five hundred delegates from two thirds of Colorado counties organized the first state convention of the National Silver Party in Denver. They adopted a platform favoring silver, pledged allegiance to any national party that supports the financial stance, and endorsed Senator Henry M. Teller for the presidency. The group also elected delegates to the national convention in St Louis on July 22.
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Colorado
Denver
Col
National Silver Party
St. Lous
Henry M. Teller
Tragic Camp Boat Accident Claims Five at Lake Massapong
In Sharon Massachusetts on June 30, St John’s Episcopal church group from Charlestown camped at Lake Massapong. After dinner the boat capsized and five boys including Frederick Brackett and others drowned. Only Frank Cox could swim and rescue survived. Four more drownings reported later at Castle Island Boston.
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Sharon
Mass
Lake Massapon
Ney
Joseph Maxwell
Frederick Brackett
George R. Keys
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Charlestown
Lake Massapong
Brackett
Thomas Parker
Harry L. Acker
Willan S. Atkins
Benjamin Gibbs
Boston
Castle Island
City Point
Boiler Explodes in Joyston Office Killing Three
A boiler blast at the Daily Age office in Joyston Texas kills engineer Henry Lyons and telegraph operator Edward R. Emory and stenographer Miss Mattie Loeb. W. G. Van Vleck, the company official, survives with serious head wounds. Theo Rice is unhurt.
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Joyston
Tex
Daily Age
Henry Lyons
Mattie Loeb
W. G van Vleck
Southern Pacific Railway
Edward R. Emory
van Vleck
Theo. G. Rice
Miners entombment fears as rescue ends in tragedy
In Pittston and surrounding mines rescue efforts fail to reach trapped workers. Officials confirm at least 70 men entombed with 48 widows and 125 orphans, while one miner near the shaft reports no response from those presumed buried.
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Wilkes Barre
Newton Coal Company
Pittston
Owens
Exeter
Thomas
Lattin
James McMahon
Harris Seen Likely As Permanent Chairman Of Democratic Convention
Chicago reports indicate Senator Isham G. Harris of Tennessee may be chosen as permanent chairman, favored by silver faction for his parliamentary mastery. The Bland forces push two headquarters and claim 872 second-ballot Bland votes, while labor aligns with Boies and Iowa gears up for July 1 headquarters.
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Harris
Chicago
Isham G. Harris
Tennessee
National Democratic
Jones
Arkansas
William F. Harrity
Sherman House
Atlantic City
Senator Harris
Turpie
Auditorium
George W. Allen
Missouri
Nicholas P. Bell
John A. Knott
J.T. Bradshaw
Bland Forces
Guv. Stone
Moses C. Wetmore
Missouri Advocate
Bland
Kentucky
Ohio
Butler
Iowa
Palmer House
Boies
C. A. Walsh
Iowa State Central Committee
Sovereign
Knights of Labor
Knights
Cleveland
Loies
County Central Committee
Indiana
Claude Matthews
Central Executive Committee
Mess
South Dakota
Dubois
Idaho
Great Northern Hotel
Teller
Greatest Men Across Fields in Classic Judgment
The essay ranks leaders in theology philosophy history poetry and drama. It names Augustine Bacon Buckle Virgil Homer Shakespeare Aeschylus as the top figures in their domains and praises their mastery in their respective arts and sciences.
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St. Augustine
Bacon
Buckle
Virgil
Homer
Shakespeare
Aeschylus
Democratic convention in Saratoga on silver policy and unity
The Saratoga Springs Democratic convention elected John Boyd Thatcher as temporary chairman and named delegates at large David Hill Roswell Prower Edward Murphy to the national convention. It adopted a Hill-led platform opposing monometallism and endorsing bimetallism with international cooperation while praising President Cleveland and urging party unity against a potential force bill. A Cuban patriots note and condemnation of Spanish cruelties were also included.
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Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Chicago
James W. Hinckley
John Boyd Thatcher
Albany
C Thatcher
David
Roswell P. Prower
Edward Murphy
Qoudert
Robert Bart
Smith M. Weed
Jacob
A. Cantor
William Purcell
Senator Hill
Committee On
Democratic Party
Democrats of
New York
United States
Mexico
China
Cleveland
Cuba
International Sunday School Convention Elects Lesson Committee
At Loston on June 27 the International Sunday School Convention elected its lesson committee. Names from multiple states and provinces were appointed, including Warren Randolph D D of Rhode Island and A F Schaufner D D of New York. The closing session featured patriotic songs and waving of flags as the audience sang God Save the Queen and America.
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International Sunday School Convention
Loston
Sthode Island
Warren Randolph
D. D
Ilinois
B. F. Jacobs
New York
A. F. Schaufner
Presbyterian
Massachusetts
A. E. Dunning
Maryland
Kephard
United Brotherhood
Tennessee
John R. Pepper
Methodist
Kentucky
John R. Lampry
Baptist
Missouri
Mosheim Rhodes
Ontario
John Potts
Pennsylvania
Stater
Reformed Church
National Party Aims Grand Interstate Rally in Minneapolis
Arrangements completed at the national headquarters for a interstate rally of the party in Minneapolis on June 29 and 30. E x-Gov John J St John Kansas vice chairman will be a principal speaker. States nominating tickets and electors include Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan Indiana Kansas Colorado Arkansas. Colored man hanged in Arkansas. Arthur Taylor, colored, was hanged at Velvock Arkansas for the murder of his wife last October.
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Campaigne Alliance
National Party
Friends of the New Movement
Minneapolis
Eix
John J. St. John
Kansas
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Indiana
Colorado
Arkansas
St. Louis
Scripps- McRae League
Mariana, Ark
Arthur Taylor
Ilvelock
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Trade Review
Youngstown
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Youngstown Telegram
Kansas City World
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Tho Executea
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Lbert Noble
Dominick Zomero
Valiceman Solomon
Trinidad
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Pilley
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Chili
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