Republicans Aim for Unified Fight in New York 1888
Washington dispatch reports New York Republicans urge unity to back a candidate who can carry the state against Cleveland. Sherman emerges as the preferred choice among businessmen and stalwarts, with Blaine and GOP rivals viewed as weaker. The aim is to nominating a man trusted by city and state Republicans to win New York and curb Cleveland’s popularity.
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Washington, D.C
Sunday Gazette
New York
Cleveland
Hill
Gov. Hill
Blaine
Democratic Party
John Sherman
Sherman
Alexander Hamilton
Albert Gallatin
Salmon P. Chase
Senator Sherman
Over the River in Illinois News Highlights
Grand jury in St Clair County calls for abolishing the costly system. Edwards County farmer stores pumpkins. one pie made this spring. Hoopeston Presbyterian church steeple cleaned. sparrows’ nesting straw piled high. State fair visitor accommodations settled with Olney obtaining 400 tents. Mt Vernon radish shaped like a hand noted. Edwards County woman rears 20,000 silkworms. Flora men spend idle time playing marbles for drinks. Effingham jail burglar demands whisky with meals. Flora’s T W Chambers showcases mudstone. Lebanon distillery rents $35,000 monthly in internal revenue. Cairo last month sold 2,000 building lots to eastern capitalists. Wolves and foxes increasing in many counties. Legislature approves $7.6 million in appropriations. Gov Oglesby to deliver 4th of July ovation at Mt Carmel. Bloomington baby show nearly 200 entries. Wayne County pays 7% on $200,000 debt.
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St. Clair County
Grand Jury
Grand
H.C. Fisher
Edwards County
Fisher
Hoopeston
Flora
Effingham
T. W. Chambers
Lebanon
Cairo
Oglesby
Mt. Carmel
Bloomington
Wayne County
IS HE CRAZY Why Sherman drew fire on tour of stump speeches
Washington June 20 John Sherman faced sharp criticism from Democrats and many Republicans for his Alabama Tennessee and Illinois stump speeches His Birmingham Alabama remark praised Confederate figures Nashville Tennessee comments praised both sides war and urged ending the conflict with no apologies In Springfield Illinois he attacked Reconstruction and the war He is ridiculed nationwide for hypocrisy and political posturing Also notes a small West Indian molasses crop.
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Washinggton
D. C
John Sherman
Alabama
Tennessee
Illinois
Birmingham
Als
Nashville
Tenag
Sherman
Springfield
Ill
Indiana Campaign Prospects From June Capital Rumors
A June Indianapolis report previews next year’s campaign with Indiana expected to be closely fought. Democrats back Myers for governor and Smith for lieutenant governor, with Gris the vice presidential nominee. Republicans favor Cumback or Roberson for governor, plan to rally prohibitionists, and doubt Blaine’s renomination, citing internal divisions and a hostile sentiment toward him. A prominent official notes Harrison or Sherman could win the state, while Blaine’s unpopularity could drive down votes.
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Indianapolis
Congress
Wm. R. Myers
Holman and Matson
Mitchell
Voorhees
Green Smith
Smith
Myers
Robertson
Cumback
Indiana
Blaine
Ben Harrison
John Sherman
Harrison
Sherman
Strange 1798 clay flute found at spring in Jeffersonville
In Jeffersonville on a McBride farm Will Kehn found a small clay flute near a spring. The instrument, about an inch long with seven holes and a right angled mouthpiece, could be played as a fife and carries a barely legible name and the date 1798. It likely belonged to an old hunter who used it as a signal and lost it long ago.
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Jeffersonville
Will Kehn
McBride
Disease Strikes Cattle in Hamilton County
A strange cattle illness in Hamilton County begins with listless behavior, sunken watering eyes, rapid breathing, and bristling hair. Within two days the animals become restless, tear fences, and die, ending their suffering.
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Hamilton
Robertson named lieutenant governor and chairman by State board
The State board of equalization, with four members, named Robertson as lieutenant governor and chairman by an 8 to 1 vote, Gov Gray voting no citing unresolved constitutional questions about the late election. Also notes Me thodists in New Albany plan 160 acres near West Baden Springs for camp meetings, $40,000 monthly rail expenses for Air Line at Huntingburg, Hartford City reports largest natural gas reservoir at 16 million cubic feet daily, a 1844 hickory flag pole stump found in Indianapolis, measles cases in Indianapolis exceed 6,000, Evansville public schools enroll 6,246, Indiana rail miles total 7,907, Vincennes to get free postal delivery after July, Gibson county wheat crop short, Evansville gin expansion to 4,000 feet, Vincennes to celebrate the 4th, Pike county has 14 saloons.
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State Board of Equalization
Robertson
Gray
Supreme Court
Methodists
New Albany
West Baden Springs
Huntingburg
Hartford City
G. W. Clark
Newport
Wabash County
Chicago
Indianapolis
Evansville
Indiana
Vincennes
Gibson County
Pike County
Rosamond Owen in a Dale Owen dress at suffrage event
New York June 20 Miss Rosamond Dale Owen a noted suffragist from the Owen family garner attention at Mrs Lillie Devereux Blake's gathering. The article describes her distinctive blue cashmere gown the Dale Owen design and her argument for freeing women from dress fetters and seeking suffrage while noting her strong intellect and public activity in England recently.
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New York
N. Y
The
New York Sun
Rosamond D. Owen
Rosamond Dale Owen
Robert Owen
Aspasia
Miss Owen
Athens
Lillie Devereux Blake
England
Dale Owen
Rose
Mies Owen
United States
G A R festival decorating helpers urged at opera house
Citizens wishing to assist in decorating for the G A R festival are asked to assemble at the opera house on July 8. Local notes mention a delayed cluster-well project and a dry river, with rain needed this week and harvest weather coming.
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C. W. Slater
Tar Register
Opera-House
New Harmony
Ind
FOR Relief Fund
F. Hiatt
R. Robson
E. Jackson
Fritz Herberhold
William P. Edson
Mt. Vernon
Fourth Street
Main
Court House
P. A. Sexton
Hiatt Block
Church Street
Lad
Horace P. Owen
Eugene 8. Thrall
NEW Harmony Banking Company
Eugene S. Thrall
Thomas Mumford Jr
Eugene F. Owen
Charles A. Parke
William H. Owen
Alfred Dale Owen
City Exchange
Thos. S. Ford
Ford & Walz
West Main Street
Trita
Fred Walz
Proprietors
Oposite Sznertenberger’s
Callio
F. M. Garvin
W. M. Duncan
Harrison— Investment Banking Comp’y
Harrison, Ark
First National Bank
Thomas E. Garvin
Mayo
Julius
King's Nation
SPE
Thrall & Mumford’s
New Harmony, Indiana
William P. Ford
Heckman
Main Street
H. Hunsdon
Jacob Breith
Breith
Breithsold Stand
Jes Y New Harmony, Indiana
Andrew Hofriter
Weber's Tailoring Store
Janely Andrew Hofreiter
New Harmony, Ind
Fred. Schaffer
Fred
Schaffer
U.S
Washington
CA Snow &Co
Washington, SC
Arctic
Albert 8. Newsom
Church St. Bet. Main & Brewery
Albert & Newsom
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U.W
Mas. T. J. Groves
Mas. W.S. Wore
Coun ix
Sue
Harveat
Purrare
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