Roberts Defeats Botha After A Desperate Battle
Pretoria reports a fierce clash as British assaults break Boer lines and push them back. Casualties are described as considerable with Botha’s last stand feared by observers. Roberts orders continued operations as reinforcements land for a renewed campaign.
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Gen
Botha
Pretoria
London
Roberta
Betuniay
South Africa
British War Office
Johnson Kills One of His Assailants in Woodlawn Shooting
Aug 28 Woodlawn scene ends with one man dead and another wounded as Ben Johnson confronts rivals after church. Will Brady clubs him, Johnson pulls a gun and shoots. another unnamed man is shot in the neck. Page mentions South Carolina Democratic primary results and local county races.
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Binayanam
Noero
Woodlawn
Ben Johnson
toMe
Will Brady
South Carolin
Clartestox
United States
O. Sonator Tillman
Hillered
Mary Man
McSweensy
Admiral Remey Sustained in Tala Peace Note Dispute
United States approves of its action at Tala as foreign admirals clash over Li Hung Chang's status as peace envoy. A meeting at Saka discussed Li's arrival and privileges, but an American signatory declined. Protests by the United States and Russia spurred near-universal disapproval of the admiralty agreement. Peking authorities show no clear negotiating authority amid allied efforts to contact Chinese officials.
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United States
Tala
Wasatsaton
Li Hong Chang
Romey
Saka
Li Hang Chang
Ing Taka
Peking
Aimod
Garrenmen
Homer
Congar
Hung Chang
Admiral Courejoles
Navy Department
Li Hung Chang
Dispatch from Chaffee on missing dispatches from Corbin
Aug 23 dispatch from Chaffee says Corbin received no messages that day though allied forces entered Peking. Numerous Corbin dispatches delayed en route through China explain missing data amid chaotic conditions and unclear dates.
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Wasinxotoy
Corbin
Chaffee
Peking
Gouger
Chaits
China
Parade of Union Veterans Draws 35000 Through Calcasy Streets
A vast Grand Army of the Republic parade in Calcasy and Cincago drew about 35000 veterans along a star adorned route. The march, begun at Randolph and Michigan, lasted five hours and covered 27 city squares before reviewing at the court of honor. Officials expect rapid roster declines as veterans age, with 7000 posts represented. In MOFFETTSVILLE the Clinkscales reunion drew 800, featuring George E. Princes and L Orr Patterson. In San Francisco census shows 42782 residents, up from 208007 in 1890. St Louis reports Red River division opening for business Sept 1 to Henrietta La.
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Cincago
Fe Guard
Grand Army of the Republic
Ranka
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington
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Union
Grand Army
Randolph Street
Michigan Avenue
Court of Honor
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Co. A
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George E. Princes
Atuterenn
L. Orr Patterson
Greenville
J. G. Clinkscales
Woffort College
St. Louis
Yoakum
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Hiram Sharpe Hanged for Wife's Murder in Georgia
In Decatur Georgia Hiram Sharpe a white man was hanged for the murder of his wife who had fled brutal treatment to her mother's home. He killed her at the doorway with a shotgun after she left him, then fled but was captured and sent to Atlanta for execution amid lynching threats.
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Decatur
Hiram Sharpe
Sharpe
Hiram
Zoe
Atlanta
Supreme Court
Parton Board
Pythians Meet At Detroit In Ruthless Racial Row
The Masonic Temple hosted Fabian Pythian events with Knights of Pythias and the Pythian Sisterhood amid a dispute over admitting Negro women to membership. Supreme Chancellor Thomas G. Sample presided as the question was disposed of by the order. A Negro woman was barred from taking an ord er degree after being admitted to the mont? ceremony.
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Detroit
Aq Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Supreme Lodge
Pythian Sisterhood
Order of the Rathbone Sisters
Thomas G. Sample
Allegheny
Pythian Order
Sa 8
Mra
H. P. Libbey
Portland
Libbey
Captain Crenshaw Dead in Atlanta after Philippines wound
Captain Frank Crenshaw of Company A, Twenty-eighth United States Volunteer Infantry, died at Elkin hospital in Atlanta after returning home for treatment of a head wound received in the Philippines. He lay weeks in Manila hospital, underwent operation, and despite little hope, remained cheerful. His body will lie in state at the capitol before interment in LaGrange.
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Philippines
Atlanta
Frank Crenshaw
Elkin Minitarium
State Capitol
LaGrange
Crenshaw
Manila
Twenty-eighth
United States Volunteer Infantry
Slater
Insurgenta
Drowned planter Bowden in Tybee surf near Columbus
Bavasyan Aug 28. W O Bowden a planter near Columbus was drowned in the Tybee surf. Bowden and his brother in law R E Waller were to Tybee to bathe when Bowden swam out, became exhausted and disappeared before help could reach him.
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Bavasyan
W. O. Bowden
Columbus
Bowden
R. E. Waller
Mae
Ony Wating
Tybes
Nak
Thrilling raft voyage of Mrs Hewitt to Nome along Yukon
Mrs Hewitt wife of a Chicago physician tied to Nome with her husband after a months long trek from Seattle. She floated 720 miles down the Yukon on a log raft after becoming lost on the Koyukuk river while seeking rich strikes at its headwaters. She was rescued and sent to Nome to reunite with her husband.
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Hewitt
Chicago
Seattle
Wash
Koyukuk River
Nome
Dawson
Fort Hamilton
Yukon
Jackson Employs Counsel to Test Recent Laws
Giles Jackson a Negro lawyer of Richmond, representing the National Council of the Constitutional Rights association, hired ex-Attorney General A. B. Hillabury and Hon. Ye. o. rR news to bring a suit to the U S Supreme Court challenging the legality of recent statutes and constitutional amendments in southern states as practices disfranchising Black citizens. The case may go before Massachusetts court first and then the U S Supreme Court. Albany Man Victimized by Gold Brick Swindlers. Spainardy Mass Aug 98 David Greenfield of Albany Ga telegraphed police to hold Smith and Blackwell, alleged swindlers, for fugitive justice and claims Smith has defrauded him of 4000. Smith denies ever meeting Greenfield or being in Albany. Blackwell’s denial is similar.
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Boston
Giles Jackson
Pegro
Richmond
National Council of the Constitutional Rights Association
A. B. Hillabury
Ye. O. Rr
Lexington
Supreme Court of the
United States
Court of Massachusetts
Supreme Court
Greenfield
Albany
Spainaridy
Mass
David Greenfield
Smith
Blackwell
Plunged Into a Fiery Pit in Hyde County Fire
A Hyde county underground fire continues to burn beneath trees and soil. Dr William R B Copshart and his horse reportedly fell into a fiery pit as the soil collapsed. A farm valued at 10000 burned. other properties and livestock were endangered by the spreading flames. The blaze has caused two wrecks amid smoke and debris.
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Ratxion
William RB
State Board of Agriculture
Bertie County
Hyde County
Bey
Copshart
Ape Armoire
Seaani
Oregon
Fragmented Bone Pile Report From St Avavstine Fla
A boy found a bone near Espanita. a pile of bones and skulls 15 feet deep suggests remains of Huguenots massacred by Spaniards. Other notes mention Dr King’s New Discovery praised for coughs, Osage and Kaw census data, Persian insurrection, and illnesses of Dr G Dan.
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St. Avavstine
Fla
Espanita
Georgia Commissioner Urges Farmers to Live at Home and Farm Smart
The Cotton States Association of Commissioners of Agriculture opened its second annual meeting in Georgia. O Stevens of Georgia urged farmers to grow food first, keep cotton within profitable limits, and resist the all cotton craze. He noted Georgia’s wheat, meat, and peach growth, the rising cotton mill boom, and the need for county farmers institutes and better labor supervision to raise land fertility and profits.
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Georgia
South
Farmers’ Institute
Sheyss
Srey
Southern Railroad Commissioners Meet on Lookout Mountain
An important conference of railroad commissioners from Florida Texas Louisiana Alabama Georgia Tennessee and perhaps other southern states will be held on Lookout Mountain at Lookout Inn tomorrow. Judge John H Reagan of Texas is among the commissioners. The meeting aims to discuss rates to secure lower southbound rates for regional systems.
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Southern Railroad
Lookout Mountain
Omarranoona
Florida
Texas
Lousalaun
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Lookout Inn
John H. Reagan
No More U S Troops to China War Dept Diverts Cavalry to Manila
War Department orders divertion of United States cavalry from Kobe to Manila amid policy not to send further troops to China. Reports claim wires between Chefoo and Shanghai are tampered with, possibly by Chinese agents, as Chaffee and Conger receive no recent communications. Casualty list from Colonel Wint notes Aug 19 engagement near Taku. No confirmation from Russian sources of Chinese recapture of Peking.
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China
War Department
Department
Kobe
Japan
United States
Manila
Taka
Chafe
Chaffee
Conger
Che Foo
Shanghai
Sheng
Lemons as Medicine and a Hard Working Congress
An 19th century tonic promises liver and kidney relief from Dr. H Moxley’s Lemon Elixir with testimonials. A long column extols Congress members as overburdened workers, then a vignette recalls two aged horses, Jack and Sam, devoted friends guiding each other along rugged pastures.
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H. Meloy
Amoy Crisis Deepens As Japanese Land Forces Reach City
General Goto commands Japanese troops occupying Amoy after large landings and mounted Nordenfeldt guns. Rioting reported, with Chinese leaving the city. A USS Castine convoy sails from Shanghai toward Amoy, while fears of a resumption of hostilities grow in Peking and Washington.
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Peking
Amoy
Li Hang Chang
Taku
Howa-Kowo
Goto
Formosa
Isia
Shooting at Vendome Hotel Stirs Chicago Man
Harold Stridiron of Chicago says he was shot twice by John H. Eason in the Vendome hotel yesterday morning and remains alive and conscious today. An ambulance surgeon says the death was instantaneous. Police are perplexed by the case and note jealousy as a possible motive. A separate dispatch from Paris mentions an arrest in Carrara tied to a separate matter.
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Buller
Capeara
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Dalmanatha
Baller
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Leydenburg
Pole-Caran
Baden Powell
Nylstroom
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Pretoria
Stridiron
Harold Stridiron
Chicago
John H. Eason
Vendome
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