Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Buffalo make up the charter cities with teams in the upstart league. Louisville, Kentucky, is the site of a reunion of 40,000 veterans of the Confederate Army. More than 100,000 people attend the event. 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. Carrie Nation begins her crusade against liquor by hurling a rock through the window of a Kiowa, Kansas, saloon.
Delegates arrive in Kansas City for the Democratic convention.
They go on to nominate William Jennings Bryan as their presidential candidate and Adlai E. Stevenson as vice-president. Farmers meeting in Topeka, Kansas, agree to form a trust to control agricultural output within the Mississippi Valley. An essay written by Theodore Roosevelt praising football is published around the time of the death of a football player at Lake Forest University in Illinois who is killed during a game. Hennepin County, Minnesota, holds the US's first direct primary. Tragedies on the football gridiron occur in Lowell, Massachusetts and Chicago, Illinois.