Chinese Hold Position As German Assaults Continue
Report from Peking notes General Ketteler’s brigade met Chinese forces on April 23 with heavy losses for the Germans, while Chinese troops resisted until driven from the province. Waldersee reports three engagements on April 23 and 24 near the Great Wall with Chinese defeat and German casualties.
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Peking
Ketteler
Kuo Lu
Lowlon
Tsang Si Yamen
Shanghai
Times
Robert Bart
Chinas
Tronpa
Berlin
German War Office
Count von Waldersee
Great Wall
Ketterer
Liu
Wall
Ku Kuan
President starts on trip with finest train ever built
Washington April 20 The president begins a seven week tour aboard a new seven car Southern Railway train. Engineer Frank Larmond and conductor W W Albright lead the crew. The Olympia private car sits at the rear and the train includes a dining car with 40 seats and two drawing room cars.
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Washington
United States
Frank Larmond
Vid W. W. Albright
Southern Railway
Southern Railway Company
New Orleans
Olympia
Polk Solid for Cummins in Polk County Primary
Polk county voters backed A B Cummins for governor with a solid delegation to the state convention. The county, home to Major H. Conger, drew statewide interest as a Republican primary centered on Cummins and Sidney Foster.
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Polk
Cummina
Des Moines
Polk County
Major &. H. Conger
Sidney A. Foster
A.B. Cummins
Cummins
Two Miners Rescued Alive After Aurora Mine Collapse
At Aurora Missouri on April 29 two entombed miners were rescued alive while one body was found and two others were believed dead. Grant Shard died instantly from rock and earth injuries. Rescued men William Shine and George Foster endured extreme confinement with Foster wedged by a foot for a day before operators freed him. Foster survived on small rations after the precarious extraction, while Shine suffered a crushed arm and possible brain injury. a dead miner lay beneath him as rescuers worked. About five thousand people watched the operation amid dangerous drift conditions.
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Heach
Aurora
Nght
Nie
Grant Shard
William Shine
George Foster
Foster
William Shane
Missing Kansas farmer tied to Wichita murder plot
Salina Kansas August 1 1909 Kinney a young farmer from Jewell county vanished near Beloit while traveling with Henry Freeman on a nursery stock trip internal letters warned his father to send 300 dollars and a decoy letter led to the arrest of a man in Abilene as the investigation links Lenny Freeman to a suspected murder for money.
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Salina
Kan
Agill
Trederieck Kinney
Jowell County
Lenny Freeman
Wichita
Kinney
Beloit
Mredmnan
Gilbert Gates
Kansas
Alexander Jester
Frederick Kinney
Nebraska
Ling
Canvust
Henry Freeman
Freeman
Abilene
SNOWSLIDE REPORTS LOSS OF LIVES AND HOMES
A Sunrise City snowslide on April 12 and 20 or more lives lost and houses buried were reported to a Valdez courier who arrived in Sunrise shortly after the slide. Jacob Rush, returning from Alaska, relayed the message and noted the harsh conditions at Bunglae City Alski Port Townsend Washington. The rest of the item mentions local labor, a Milwaukee stock firm debt claim, a Turner township fatal shooting, a railway executive resignation, and a Cedar Rapids travelers convention result with Burlington as state headquarters and Waterloo to host next year.
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Bunglae City
Alski
Port Townsend
Wash
Jacob Rush
Alaska
Valdex
Valdez
Uenews
Rush
Sunrise City
Rush Boys Vaiden
Travelers End
Cedar
Iowa Travelers’ Protectivea Association
Burlington
Waterloo
Luzon Dictator Cailles Escapes After Cavinti Engagement
Rebel leader Cailles, accused of brutal killings, escaped when Captain Chase’s detachment attacked his camp near Cavinti, Laguana province. Adjutant general and several staff officers captured. Cailles’s forces pursued. Reports note Cailles had offered rewards for Americans and was linked to violent practices opposed by the Mando-Dicat society. In South Camarines, provincial government is established with banners praising the commission and denouncing friars.
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Manila
Wi0on Chase
Callies
Dugot-Dugot
Cavinti
Laguana
Cuailles
Chase
Eilipino
Velo
Medill
Company A
Twenty-first
Cailles
Edward N. Jones, Jr
Elviith Infantry
Kor
Nenya Caceres
South Camarines
Luzon
North Camarines
Beatrice man fasting seeks permission to eat meat
Beatrice Neb April 29 Meary Cordes, who has fasted four days, drank a boiled milk broth and chicken broth for dinner after praying for permission to eat. A Beatrice minister urged him to eat, but he declined, saying he prayed long for divine assent and may eat today. He walked to church early, weak but likely to continue fasting forty days.
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Meary Cordes
Beatrice
Leary Cordes
Liu
Ite
Albanian Atrocities Reported Near Belgrade and Governor’s Retirement
From Belgrade reports Albanians in old Servia commit wholesale atrocities. Seventeen killed and many wounded in an encounter at Pridrovitza. Governor Pietech, returning from Washington, plans retirement May 1 and a short rest before Hastings and duties return.
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Vienna
Belgrade
Old Servia
Pridrovitza
Old Sergia
Clark Forces Defiant Over Uvada Railroad Injunction
In Salt Lake on April 20 a Uvada report states Colonel Maxson leading the Clark forces at the disputed right of way near Uvada was served with notice of a United States court injunction prohibiting San Pedro from interfering with Oregon Short Line construction between Uyada Clover Valley Junction and Tignehe. Maxson refused service, ordered his men to ignore the order, and pledged to defend the ground seized, with Clark and allied Salt Lake and Angelos officials backing the stance and urging no concessions.
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United States
Salt Lake
Uvada
Maxson
Clark
Oregon Short Line
Carson City
San Pedro Company
Uyada
Clover Valley Tunction
Tignehe
An Angelos
Six Miners Entombed In Latrobe Mine Disaster
Latrobe Pennsylvania April 25 A coal and coke plant engine house and coke house burned to ruins. Six miners reported dead. Two injured Superintendent Rogers and William Gul suffocated while attempting rescue. Nine miners were in the mine when fire started. 12 men descended the arm shaft 250 feet deep to report the fire. Additional rumors say six more were inside. Fire will force over 400 miners out of work.
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Latrobe
Dorothy Coal and Coke Plant
Rogers
William Gul
Klue
Pues
Beet sugar industry grows as new factories planned
Special Agent Sayler submits to Secretary Wilson a report from Washington noting an active push to establish beet sugar enterprises. He forecasts three new factories in Michigan next autumn and expansions in Ohio Indiana New York Colorado Utah North and South Dakota and Maine. He estimates 42 factories may be operating by next autumn end, showing the industry firmly established nationwide.
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Sayler
Wilson
Washington
C.ff. Sayler
Town
Department of Agriculture
Wasington
Autiwin
Michigan
Faetorica
Ohio
Indina
New York
Colorado
Utah
South
North Dakota
Timeis
United States
Three Passengers Hurt innear Pattonsburg Train Wreck
A passenger train on the Omaha Kansas City and Eastern road derailed near Pattonsburg Moe April 19 injuring three passengers. The injured include AW Turpin of Nevada with facial and body bruises and Th Ta Ovear and wife badly bruised. one car overturned but none seriously hurt.
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Omaha Kangey City
Eastern Trail
Pattonsburg
Moe
Omaha, Kansas City and
Here
Turpin
Nevada
Ovear
Telegraphic Briefs From A Busy News Cycle
The brief item notes Herbert Spencer turning 81, plans for a new canal treaty with Great Britain, opposition to the income tax and free trade, a Swiss amateur claiming color photography, Dr. Burton’s steerable war balloon concept, reports of gold discoveries in Miandike, a Pittsburgh delegates meeting for a Chicago labor conference, an \u2018Amex\u2019 Paris office robbery of 80,000 francs, a Duluth fire destroying Zenith Pauper Co. stock, a Chicago and Alton passenger rate adjustment, drownings in Cummingsville during floods, Milwaukee belt line access via St. Paul and Northwestern Railways, a fatal snatching arrest attempt in Chicago, officials uncertain over Juan Galles declaring himself Philippines dictator and waging war on Americans.
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Herbert Spencer
Great Britain
Burton
State Department
Miandike
Pittsburg
Chicago
American Express Company
Paris
Duluth
Zenith Pauper Company
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Kansas City
New York
Cummingsville
Philp Kennedy
John Busam
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Richard Danalhne
Gardiner
Washington
Juan Galles
Philippines
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Buffalo Exposition
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American Seed Ride Association
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Wild Outfit
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Milwaukee Stock and Grain Exchange
Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
J. R. Lewis
St. Louis
Kruli
Centerville
Fin- Iay Bits
Fred Bauman
Turner Township
Bauman
Tarry Hammond
Hammond
Kes Aka
General Cailles
Toyargent
Kroonstad
London
Lord Kitchener
Kroonsin
Prince of Wales Light Horse
Plumer
Algiers
Marguerite
Hadji Denaissin
Muaribout
Niensin
Lo Fa
Yang Tsun
Sydney
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Terr Caro
New Brita
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Wome
Lincoln
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Hastings
Mum
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Andre
Roosevelt Aros
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Iowa
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R. Heinz
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