Attack on Pekin Report Kills All Christians
London reports Chinese artillery and a Russian relief force outside Pekin with bombardment of the city. Chinese troops are said to have massacred Christians at several missions while rumors of foreign casualties circulate.
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Pekin
Forte
London
Shanghai
Daily Express
Legations
Tung Ching
Taku
Berlin
Kartetz
Mandschur
Japan
Hai Yiang
Armstrongs
Yum Nan Fu
GSC
Wu Hu
Cze Chuam
Tien Tsin
Two Persons Dropped Dead In Mount Pleasant Texas
Oscar R. Brown a Cotton Belt passenger brakeman died suddenly in front of the Kyle hotel at 2 30 pm after dinner. He recently moved to Mount Pleasant and had been married about nine months. Mrs J B Rose died last Thursday evening during supper after a long illness.
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Mount Pleasant
Texas
Oscar R. Brown
Cotton Belt
Kyle Hotel
J. B. Rose
Wind storm damages yard shed and trees at Lake Charles
A wind storm in Lake Charles between 11 and 12 yesterday partially wrecked a new dry shed at the Stanford brick yard, damaging about 700 dollars worth of brick. Fruit and shade trees suffered considerable damage, with no other serious losses reported. The rainfall was unusually heavy.
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Lake Charles
Stanford Brick Yard
Victory for minority in Louisville Bridge suit
In Louisville on June 20 Judge Miller in chancery court upheld the minority stockholders led by John L. Dodd in a suit against the Louisville Bridge company and multiple railroads. The court awards about 145000 dollars to the plaintiffs while appointing a receiver.
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Louisville Bridge Company
Louisville
John L. Dodd
The
Bridge Company
Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Company
Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chicago and
Miller
Texas and Pacific Rail Line to Replace Rails with Steel
Thirty six carloads of steel rails arrived in Texarkana for the Texas and Pacific Railroad Company. Work will replace the present track from Texarkana to El Paso, forming a valuable Southwest trunk line. The aim is to improve passenger service and establish a faster San Francisco to Texarkana route.
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Improventa
Texarkana
Texas
Texas and Pacific Railroad Company
el Paso
San Francisco
Tragic Hanging Found on Waterhouse Plantation
In Wharton Texas on June 20 a white man named Fred Walker was found hanging from a tree at the Waterhouse plantation. Judge R J Horton and officials went to investigate an inquest was planned. A barrel lay overturned near the tree and the knot was a common slip knot. He left a family living near Schulenburg.
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Wharton
Texas
Fred Walker
Waterhouse Plantation
R. J. Horton
Schulenburg
Young Engineer Killed Moving Thresher Near Bonham
Albert Owen 25 died in Bonham Texas when a coupling pole failed on a steam thresher as it moved between fields. He acted as engineer and was crushed between the engine and the separator on a steep hill.
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Bonham
Texas
Albert Owen
Mississippi Railroad Commission Rejects Tariff Sheet 27
The Mississippi railroad commission in Jackson on June 20 refused tariff sheet No. 27 from the Southern classification committee and ruled tariff sheet No. 25 remains in effect. The decision cites higher rates in the new sheet compared with existing charges.
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Missississippi Commission
Jackson, Miss
Mississippi Railroad Commission
Southern Classification Committee
Severe rainstorm causes wide damage near Texarkana
A fierce rainstorm swept through Texarkana and surrounding rural areas on June 20. Spasmodic gusts approached cyclone strength, crippling telegraph service and ruining corn and wheat fields across the countryside.
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Texarkana
Texas
Stock Killed by Lightning in Nacogdoches County
A June storm in Nacogdoches Texas brought heavy rain and wind, four inches and eighty seven hundredths fell in four hours, flooding creeks and bottom lands. The disaster reported several head of stock killed by lightning.
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Nacogdoches
Texas
Building of Lake Charles Saw and Planing Mill Begun
A new large saw and planing mill project has commenced at Lake Charles, signaling expansion in local timber processing. Officials expect job creation and increased industrial activity in the area.
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Lake Charles
R Ently
Pack Failure Cases on Trial in Tyler
United States district court in Tyler Texas opened a special session to try cases arising from the failure of two local national banks. Judge Swain of Florida presiding, with DA McLemore and assistants. Many motions heard for dismissal. ex Governor Hogg and local attorneys represent defendants. Indictment spans 300 pages. trial expected to last weeks. Sixty jurors drawn from seventeen counties. none from Smith County.
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Tyler
Texas
United States District Court
Eastern District of Texas
Swain
Florida
McLemore
Hogg
Messrs
Johnson
Edwards
Louisiana Rice Rates Compromise Adopted in New Orleans
After a long dispute between southwest Louisiana rice growers and the Southern Pacific, the Louisiana railroad commission and all parties accepted a compromise schedule from the New Orleans board of trade. The plan reduces rice freight rates by 3 1/2 cents per hundred pounds, saving about 100000 dollars per crop for producers, with a 5 cent differential on rough rice under cleaned to New Orleans. The country mills objected briefly but the measure passed.
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Louisiana
New Orleans
Southern Pacific
Louisiana State Railroad Commission
New Orleans Board of Trade
Burlington passenger train wrecked by hail storm near Falls City
The Burlington train from Denver, arriving in Kansas City, was badly damaged by a severe hail wind and rain storm between Falls City and Ruin Nebraska. Engineers raced to escape the storm as windows shattered and water flooded cars. Passengers were cut by flying glass and much mail matter was damaged.
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Kansas City
Burlington
Denver
Falls City
Ruio
Neb
No Plague in Mexico and El Paso Report
Colonel Dosamentes of the Mexican navy, arriving from Guaymas and Hermosillo, reports no plague in Mexico. He notes China men died from common local diseases and says the government is alert and taking measures to prevent any plague. He denies plague in Mexico and dismisses reports of Hermosillo deaths as false.
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Mexico
el Paso
Texas
Dosamentes
Guaymas
Hermosillo
China
Witnesses Trek to Rusk and Nacogdoches for feud cases
Witnesses from San Augustine county leave for Rusk and Nacogdoches Texas from June 19 amid crowd concerns. Captain Brooks delayed Walls last night, three Rangers and Sheriff Campbell accompany the group. They will stay in Lufkin today and ride the regular train onward. A second group arrives from San Augustine and departs tonight as precautions to prevent trouble are heightened.
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Rusk
Nacogdoches
Texas
San Augustine
Brooks
Campbell
Lufkin
Oregon Ordered to Taku Amid Crew Shortage and Reinforcements
The battleship Oregon has been ordered to Taku with its sailing delayed by an undersized crew after marines were reassigned to gunboats. Two Indian regiments are heading to reinforce the garrison and replace troops sent north.
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Oregon
Taku
Hong Kong
United States
India
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Philadelphia
Walton
J. G. Pringey
Oklahoma Territory
Brenton F. Hall
Belding
Mich
Burton
Walter Hunter
Delaware
Marcus West
Washington
Dr. Camden
Pringey
Hall
Camden
Peaumont
Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Railroad
District Court
Gulf and Interstate
Kay See
West
Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Company
S. Wolfson
Spie
San Antonio
Main Avenue
Seled
Lad Street
California
Paul Jones
Belle OF
Bourbon
Barrel Goods Metropolitan
ALCON
Nay Bowles, Prop
Alpine, Texas
G. W. Blackburn
Alpine
W. van Sickle
L. N. Halbert
Brewster
W. H. Ragin
Brewster County
B. M. Hines
G. H
Hancock's Drug Store
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