China Must Answer Hay Demand From Secret Dispatch
Washington reports Secretary Hay demanded a five hundred word dispatch from Minister Conger in Peking via Wu. Wu aims to secure communication with Conger and expose China’s responsibility for the Peking crisis. Officials criticize the Chinese government for shifting blame while seeking to confirm the safety of foreign legations and ministers.
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May
Uncle Sam
Washington
Hay
Conger
Peking
Shanghai
China
Weking
Tuan
United States
Expect Much From Chaf Will Do Quick Work in China
Washington reports the War Department plans feeding the army in China with sixty days of rations for Nagasaki destined troops. Manila will serve as a base and a weekly Manila to Taku transport will supply Chinese contingents. General Chaffee’s backers expect rapid movement upon arrival if given a free hand.
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China
Washington
War Department
Nagasaki
Chaffee
Lis Cum
Manila
Taku
Cattle Die of Thirst as Rivers Run Dry in Arizona
Drouth devastates Arizona counties with dry wells and water holes. Cattle die by the thousands across Pima Pinal Santa Cruz Yuma Cochise and Maricopa. Gila and Salt rivers reported without water. Casa Grande reservoir exhausted. crops failing on farms and reservations. Santa Catalina forest fires add to losses.
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California
Los Angeles
Cal
Arizona
Pima
Pinal
Santa Cruz
Yuma
Cochise
Maricopa
Gila
San Pedro
Benson
Sal River
Phoenix
Casa Grande
Florence
Sacton
Santa Catalina Mountains
FIGHTING IN SOUTH AFRICA Boers press British in several clashes
London reports from July indicate Boer forces attacked General Buller’s escort between Sanderton and Heidel sberg while he toured with Lord Roberts. Boers also struck the Ficksburg garrison at midnight July 9 but retreated after 45 minutes. British casualties totaled 33 as Lt Col Mahon’s troops clashed with 3,000 Boers east of Broukerspruit.
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London
South Africa
Buller
Sanderton
Heidelsberg
Lord Roberts
Ficksburg
Johannesburg
Pretoria
Martial Law Proclaimed at Cape Nome amid Gold Rush News
The steamer St. Paul arrived from St. Michael Alaska reporting martial law declared at Cape Nome. It carried 1.5 million dollars in gold to the Alaskan Commercial Company and fifty passengers.
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Cape Nome
San Francisco
St. Paul
St.Michael
Alaska
Alaskan Commercal Company
Iowa Senator Gear dies in Portland home
United States Senator Gear of Iowa died in his Portland Avenue apartment yesterday morning after a sudden heart attack. He had been in poor health for a year or more, but the death was unexpected. He retired at eleven, then notified his secretary of chest congestion before severe breathing trouble and collapse. He died at 4:28, aged nearly 75, with physicians presenting heart trouble as the cause.
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Washmeton
United States
Senator Gear
Iowa
Portland House
Col. R. Root
Burglars Foiled in Center State Robbery
July 14 Center State reports four gunmen robbed Nelson and Whithill general store and local bank at 4 am. Citizens armed flooded streets as a volley of shots drove thieves into retreat. One proprietor wounded. two burglars captured after a two hour running fight. two others fled to woods. Suspects identified as McCabe and Murray.
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Center State Center
Nelson & Whithill
Ben Whithill
McCabe
Murray
Young Married Man Arrested on Accusations of Seduction
Deputy Sheriff Hutson arrested F. D. Rusie from Green Mountain on a seduction charge. Rusie, 24 and married, is accused by his wife’s sister and father-in-law in Marshalltown. He is held on $1,000 bonds awaiting preliminary trial. he cannot yet post security and remains jailed.
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Marshalltown
Hutson
Green Mountain
F. D. Rusie
Burritt
Rusie
W. G. McAfee
Mryde McAfee
Rosie
Apar
Lacey Renominated for Congress in Albia Rally
Ottumwa July 12 Major John F. Lacey was unanimously renominated by the Sixth district Republicans at Albia. Resolutions praise Lacey's record and leadership as he seeks another term.
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Lacey
Ottumwa
John F. Lacey
Albia
Fell Sixty Feet and Lives
In Fort Dodge on July 14 Earl Sieber a thirteen year old boy slipped while climbing the roof of a new manufacturing plant and fell sixty feet. He was stunned but recovered at home with a broken wrist and bruised body.
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Fort Dodge
Earl Sieber
Sioux City Anti-Saloon League files 17 injunction suits
The Sioux City branch of the Iowa Anti-Saloon League has filed seventeen injunction suits against liquor dealers in various county towns. The league says the consent petition recently secured is insufficient.
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Sioux City
Iowa Anti-Saloon League
Waterloo's Population Figures in Census
Waterloo July 13 The Reporter presents unofficial census data showing Waterloo's population at 12,581.
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Twaterloo
Waterloo
Carpenter Blows Off Head With Dynamite in Cemetery
Ort Dodge July 12 C Johnson a carpenter and mason blew off his head with dynamite in the Roman Catholic cemetery near Pomeroy after days of drinking. He bought dynamite and likely placed it in his mouth. His head was blown apart and one hand severed. He was unmarried and left two brothers.
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Carpenter
Ort Dodge
C. Johnson
Pomeroy
Murdered by Tramps Near Clinton Identified Body
The body found along the Northwestern track near Blairstown is identified as Livie Matthews of Chicago. He visited here last week and the body rests in Clinton morgue. Police report six tramps abducted him from a freight car with a friend from West Cedar Rapids. The friend fled and is missing.
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Clinton
Blairstown
Livie Matthews
Chicago
West Cedar Rapids
Matthews
New Automatic Switchboard Created by Sioux City Inventor
FE A Clark of the Sioux City Exchange Iowa Telephone company unveils an automatic switchboard now claimed to eliminate central offices. The Clark Automatic Switchboard Company is organized in Providence Rhode Island with 1.5 million dollars capital to manufacture these boards. The invention promises major improvements to telephone facilities and ends the era of operator hello girls.
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FE. A. Clark
Sioux City
Iowa Telephone Company
Clark Automatic Switchboard Company
Providence
R. L
Arsenic in the Bread Strikes Remsen Group
A gathering at Mrs. D. Franks south of Remsen left fifteen people ill with symptoms like strychnine poisoning. Doctors diagnosed bread as containing a large arsenic amount. It is unclear if contamination was accidental or intentional. no fatalities reported at this time.
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Remsen
D. Franks
Horse Thieves Strike Near Clinton and Vinton
A third horse theft in a month occurs near Clinton and Vinton as A. L Hanwell’s barn is entered and a horse owned by a visitor from Independence is stolen with a harness. The gang is believed to have taken an animal from Prof. Tobin to pair with the horse, and a light wagon is stolen from J. W. Read’s barn.
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Clinton
Vinton
A. L Hanwell
Tobin
J. W. Read
Trouble for Sioux City Saloons Injunctions Likely Warned
Sioux City saloonkeepers face potential injunctions as the Anti-Saloon league led by city ministers intensifies action over screens and wine rooms. Officials warned weeks ago, and noncompliance persists, prompting possible legal measures.
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Sioux City
Anti-Saloon League
League
Sioux City Girl Heir to Small Fortune
Miss Jennie Throckmorton, about twenty, becomes heir to more than 15000 dollars from her uncle G. H. Throckmorton. She leaves Sioux City for Denver to claim the fortune, avoiding work in a box factory to support her widowed mother.
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Sioux City
Jennie Throckmorton
Denver
G. H. Throckmorton
Throckmorton
Farmer Dies After Hay Load Fall Near Alexander
C. J. Sunthen, a well-to-do farmer of 240 acres living north of Alexander, fell from a hayload and struck his head on a watering trough edge, breaking his neck and dying instantly. He leaves a wife and four children. Fort Dodge and Omaha sale details: J. F. Merry of Illinois Central moves to arrange sale to Dubuque and Sioux City and lease to Illinois Central, consolidating Iowa system.
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C. J. Sunthen
Alexander
Fort Dodge & Omaha
Fort Dodge
J. F. Merry
The
Illinois Central
Fall at Brandon Gypsum mill leaves worker paralyzed
Fort Dodge July 15 Chas Hansen a laborer at Brandon Gypsum mill fell from a trestle piled on stones twenty feet below. Several ribs were broken and the spinal column injured, paralyzing the lower body. He will probably die.
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Fort Dodge
Chas, Hansen
Brandon
Alleged Counterfeiter Arrested in Sioux City Case
United States Detective Stephen A. Connell arrested James Magden alias J. Stone here on counterfeiting charges by altering denominations. In Sioux City, a Boston receiver now owns property valued at $600,000 including the Massachusetts and Hedges block.
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Dunlap
United States
Stephen A. Connell
Minneapolis
Minn
James 58
Magden
J. 5. Stone
United States Treasury
Sioux City
Massachusetts Real Estate Company
Boston
Massachusetts and Hedges
Mystery at Marshalltown Body Found In River
The body of an unknown woman about forty, well dressed and jewel clad, was found floating in the Iowa river below Marshalltown. She is badly decomposed and believed to have been in the water for over two weeks as a mystery surrounds the death.
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Marshalltown
Lowa
British Forces Lose Nitral's Nek in South Africa Fight
London reports Lord Roberts dispatch detailing a dawn attack by Boers on the right flank near Nitral's Nek. The garrison of Scott's Greys, Battery F Royal Artillery, and Lincolnshire regiment suffered heavy losses as the defenders held roads and telegraph lines. Pretoria lies vulnerable as Boers press Roberts along multiple points, with over 200 British casualties and Colonel Roberts captured.
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Lord Roberts
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Nitral’s Nek
Scott's Greys
Royal Artillery
Lincolnshire Regiment
Nek
Nitral’s
Crocodile River
Rustenburg
South Africa
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Botha
Middleburg
Durdeport
Krugersdorp
Roberts
EXPECT TROUBLE WITH INDIANS AT RED LAKE
Solway Minnesota July 14 danger of an outbreak by Blanket Indians on Red Lake grows Indian police have joined war dances at the point and warnings urge friendly Indians and whites to stay away. Twenty mounted men have gone to Indian Agent Mercer for instructions and a petition will seek state troops to Red Lake. The force is now over 300 with warriors marching and rifles fired in the air as whites prepare for attack and Mercer’s fate remains uncertain.
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Solway
Minn
Red Lake
Chippewa
Mercer
Lind
Captain Mercer
Bryan to Be Notified August Plans Made by Chairman Jones
Chicago July 13 Bryan and Stevenson will be officially notified of their nomination at Indianapolis August 8 if the plan of the democratic managers holds. Mayor Taggart of Indianapolis, the new national committeeman from Indiana, visited Chicago and is said to have convinced Chairman Jones that Democrats can carry Indiana if the modification ceremonies are held in the Hoosier capital.
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Jones
Chicago
Bryan
Stevenson
Indianapolis
Taggart
Indiana
Hoosier
Germans Eating Dog Meat amid Meat Shortages in Germany
Washington reports Consul General Guenther in Frankfort says high prices push Germans to eat dog meat as an article of food alongside horse meat. He criticizes a new meat inspection bill for failing to protect consumers and excludes many first class imports from the country while horse meat consumption rises. Across the world, Afghanistans regional conflict and the Ninth Infantry reaching Taku are noted with brief dispatches.
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Washington
Germany
Guenther
Frankfort
State Department
Attack on Peking legations leaves foreigners dead
Shanghai and official Chinese sources report that on July 6 attackers under Prince Tuan struck the British and Russian legations in Peking. The siege lasted until dawn, destroying the legations and killing all foreigners, with Chinese casualties including Prince Ching and General Wang Wen Shao. Prince Tuan allegedly distributed taels and rice to Boxers afterward.
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London
Shanghai
The
Daily Mail
Peking
Prince Tuan
Tsai Yin
Prince Yin Ly
Tsin Yu
Prince Ching
Wang Wen Sho
Wang Wen Shao
Prince Tuan Edict Shows Legations Protected No Longer
London reports Prince Tuan's June edict admitting anger of the people and that guarding the legations became impossible. It signals the party will not disguise worsening conditions as more foreigners arrive. Paris notes no European telegram from Peking since June 24 and questions legations safety.
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London
Shanghai
Prince Tuan
the Express
Peking
Paris
Temps
Sir Robert Hart
Europe
Battle in Progress Several Days With Decisive Results
London reports from July 6 detailing renewed Chinese assault at Tien Tsin with twelve guns. Allied forces including naval guns from the Terrible and a 1,000-strong mixed force attacked the Chinese for seven hours, forcing retirement but yielding no decisive outcome. Heavy fighting occurred on July 2 and 3 with Chinese artillery causing damage. about 500 men wounded.
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London
Tien Tsin
Terrible
German Treaty Closed Subscribes to Reciprocity Plan
Washington July 12 The long awaited U S Germany reciprocity arrangement has been effected Secretary Hay and the German ambassador subscribed to the convention President McKinley will issue a proclamation to put the new duties in force The plan mirrors the first France treaty and lowers duties on still wines argots paintings and statuary from Germany entering the United States It does not require Senate approval being drawn under section 4 of the Ding ley act
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Hay
Rolleben
Washington
United States
Germany
McKinley
France
Senate
Train Robbers Loot Central Fast Train Near Wickliffe
Paducah July 12 six bandits held up the Illinois Central fast train from New Orleans to Chicago two miles south of Wickliffe After knocking the fireman unconscious they cut off the engine and express car and blew the express safe securing valuables They crossed into Missouri leaving a package with seven hundred dollars but escaped with ten thousand The passengers were not harmed
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Paducah
Thellinois Central
New Orleans
Chicago
Wickliffe
Missouri
Send Off to the Ships
Kiel July 11 Emperor Wameaid addresses the first naval division before its departure for China. He vows a determined campaign, warns of a cunning foe with greater weapons to avenge German blood, and orders sparing women and children while aiming to subdue China. He urges comradeship with allied troops and unity in the mission.
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Kiel
China
Wameaid
Notes From The Capital On Iowa Tax Increases And Railway Boom
The article details a major rebuild after a June fire, a projected state property tax rise totaling about 15 million dollars, driven by increased building values and a railroad boom. It notes county reports, personnel changes in Company L of the Fifty-first Iowa, and fruit crop outlooks including percentages for apples pears plums and berries.
Clerk Jones Denies State Fee Claims In Supreme Court Audit
Clerk Jones of the state supreme court filed with the governor a statement defending his position on about 4000 dollars in fees he collected personally. He says he will repay any amount the tribunal finds he owes and that the fees were earned by clerks of the court. He requests to be heard and would submit the dispute to the courts for decision.
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Clerk Jones
State Supreme Court
Executive Council
Jones
McKinley Receives Republican Nomination Notification
Canton dispatch reports President McKinley was formally notified of his Republican presidential nomination yesterday at 11 am. The Cleveland committee arrived by special train and, after escort to the McKinley home, was greeted on the platform. Senator Lodge delivered the notification address, then McKinley spoke in acceptance.
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Canton
Mc Kinley
United States
Republican Party
Cleveland
McKinley
Senator Lodge
Remey Arrives in Taku Ninth Infantry Marines
Remey reports from Che Foo July 10 with two battalions of Ninth infantry and one battalion of marines. Colonel Mead lands at Tien Tsin and allied forces defend. Solace designated to Yokohama hospital. Oregon to dock at Kure towed by a chartered steamer with Nashville convoy. Foreigners in Tien Tsin reportedly hard pressed.
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Washington
War Department
Remey
Che Foo
Ninth Infantry
Mead
Tiensin
Tien Tsin
Yokohama
Oregon
Kure
Nashville
Seymour
Tien ‘Tsin
Missionaries Saved in Che Foo Amid Refugee Rescues
A dispatch from Che Foo reports great joy as Shin Fing, a steamer of Chinese registry but commanded by American and English officers, brings in rescued white missionaries and native preachers. Allies saved refugees in Tien Tsin and Taku from certain danger, signaling continued relief efforts.
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New York
Journal and Advertiser
Che Foo
Tsin
Shin Fing
Tien Tsin
Taku
Army Strength in the Philippines Reported
A statement by the adjutant general lists the U S Army strength in the Philippines on June 30 at 63 426 officers and men. Of these 31 821 are regulars and 31 605 volunteers including 1 310 officers and men of the Ninth Infantry transferred to China.
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Washington
Adjutant General
United States Army
Philippines
Ninth Infantry
China
Governments to seek 14.5 million franc credit for China
On July 11, a government announced it will request an additional credit of 14.5 million francs for China, atop the 4.5 million francs already approved. The move signals expanded financial support amid ongoing international efforts.
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China
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