Boston Suffered Severe Storm With Uprooted Trees
A small cyclone swept Boston area Friday afternoon causing heavy rain and a tornado like gust. Franklin square near Washington and East Newton streets bore the worst damage with a giant maple uprooted, an elm stripped by lightning, and multiple trees felled across Franklin and Worcester squares. City Forester Doogue organized emergency work to clear wreckage and save the maple. Temperature rose to 90 at 1 p m then fell and fluctuated through the day while winds peaked at 36 miles per hour.
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Franklin Square
Washington and
East Newton Streets
Washington Street
Worcester Square
N. Y
Massachusetts Avenue
Swett Street
City Hospital
Boston
Hudson Street
Franklin
Worcester
Doogue
Weather Bureau
Relieving Seymour Strife and Pekin Legation Burnings
Reported Allied forces suffered heavily in the relief effort for Seymour. Later messages claim Pekin ministers did not reach his column and their fate is in doubt. Chinese refugees allege troops were killed and Pekin legations were burned.
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Pekin
Tien Tsin
Tsechulin
Legations
Shanghai
Americans Killed At Tien Tsin
London dispatch details casualties among foreign forces at Tien Tsin with Americans three killed and two wounded, British two killed and one wounded, Germans fifteen killed and others wounded, Russians ten killed and thirty seven wounded. Describes siege conditions, naval and land actions, and uncertain fate of ministers at Pekin.
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Tien
Tsin
Che Foo
Tien Tsin
Seymour
London
Nieh
Shanghai
Dorward
Harvard Yale Freshman and Varsity Rowing Race Report
NEW LONDON Conn June 28 Harvard won the freshman and four oared race but Yale took the varsity contest in the final mile when Harding dropped out and Harvard faded after star Francis L Higginson broke his ankle in a Sunday baseball game The two crews raced closely for three miles with no clear gaps Yale edged ahead in the last stretch by seven lengths Harvard blames Higginson for the defeat and notes the unusual graveyard like hole at Red Top as a monument to the missed victory
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Harvard
Yale
Varsity
Crimsons
New London
Conn
Harding
Higginson
Francis L. Higginson
Harvard College
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Park Square
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Shuman
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