• In Washington, DC, heated debate in the US Senate over an
anti-trust bill threatens to shut down the government. Elsewhere in DC, the
Washington monument, featuring a seven-minute elevator ride, opens to tourists.
(Northeast/US)
• Republicans convene in Philadelphia to nominate presidential and
vice-presidential candidates. They choose William McKinley and Theodore
Roosevelt, respectively. (Northeast/US)
• A federal quarantine, forbidding anyone to leave the city without
permission from a US health officer, is ordered in San Francisco over fears
caused by bubonic plague. (Southwest/US)
• Spanish cellist Pablo Casals performs at the Salle des Agriculture during
the Paris Exposition. (Europe)
• Players from baseball's National League meet in New York to form The
Protective Association of Professional Ball Players. Among other issues,
players protest being farmed out to other teams against their will.
(Northeast/US)
• Medical experts in San Francisco hold discussions about using x-rays to
treat tuberculosis. (Southwest/US)
• The first international championship motorcar race is held in France as
drivers from Belgium, France, Germany, and the US compete for the Gordon
Bennett Cup on a course running from Paris to Lyon. The race, sponsored by New
York publisher Gordon Bennett, is won by the driver from France, who maintains
an average speed of 38 miles per hour. (Europe)
• In China, the Boxer's siege of the legations begins with the
assassination of the German ambassador. (Asia, Europe)
• Three-hundred and twenty-six steamship passengers and crew members are
killed as fire destroys 3 steamships and piers in Hoboken, New Jersey.
(Northeast/US)
• Nestor Montoya, a member of the New Mexican State Legislature,
establishes "La Bandera Americana" a Spanish language newspaper. It was the
second newspaper founded by the well known defender of Hispanic rights. Montoya
founded La Voz del Pueblo in 1889. (Southwest/US)
• New York is the site of the Socialist Labor Party convention where Joseph
P. Maloney of Massachusetts and Valentine Remmel of Pennsylvania are nominated
for president and vice-president, respectively. (Northeast/US)
• The Prohibition Party chooses John G.Wooley of Illinois as their
presidential candidate and Henry B. Metcalf of Rhode Island as their
vice-presidential contender. (Midwest, Northeast/US)
• Carrie Nation begins her crusade against liquor by hurling a rock through
the window of a Kiowa, Kansas, saloon. (Midwest/US)
• The London Times reports that mail will leave Rhodesia today for
the first time in nine months and that passengers will be able to travel
between Bulawayo, Rhodesia and Cape Town by the middle of June. (Africa)
• The International Ladies' Garment Workers Union is founded by cloakmakers
on New York's Lower East Side. The union represents 2,300 workers in New York,
Newark, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. (Northeast/US)
• An economic crisis in Guatemala forces the government to stop the
importation of goods. A near collapse of nation's money markets leads to a
reported complete stagnation of business. (Central America/Caribbean)
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