FIGHTING IN PEKING FINAL STAND AS RELIEF REACHES LEgATIONS
The allied forces entered Peking without opposition and the foreign legations are relieved. Reports from Shanghai and Tokyo confirm the capture date of August 15 and the safety of legations. Adm Remey notes the inner city bombardment and a possible delay in the dowager empress’s fate.
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London
Peking
Shanghai
Li Hung Chang
Yang Tse
Washington
Navy Department
Adm
Remey
Taku
Shen-Si
Kansu
Tokio
Yamaguchi
Tung-Chow Canal
Tartar City
Chinen
War Department
Barry
Chaffee
Cheefoo
Indiana
15Th Infantry
Sumner
Nagasaki
Cnaffee
Matow
Gen. Chaffee
Prince Yungedo
Foreign Office
Japan
Legation
Gen Chaffee
Forbidden City
New York City
Imperial City
Bruce Cables
Admiralty
Chee-Foo
Yang Sa
Chang Chi Tung
Hankow
Liu Kun Yi
Nankin
Li Ping Hong
Cheng
Chang Lui Lin
Brussels
Tien-Tsin
Che-Foo
M. Ketals
Chiang
Paris
Water and Fire Fatalities Dot Pittsburgh Day
Four drownings and one burn death mark a grim day in Pittsburgh. Names include Chris Paffenbach aged 50 who drowned after a raft mishap on the Allegheny river Edward Brillinger eight years old who drowned while fishing with his father James Gallagher and Hugh Mc Grady two boys who drowned together while swimming on the Monongahela and Mrs Mary C Boyd wife of a coal company official who died from severe burns after a bottle of cleaner oil exploded in her Oak Hill home. Neighbors tried to aid and the house burned to the ground.
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Pittsburgh
Chris Paffenbach
Allegheny River
Edward G. Brillinger
James Gallagher
Hugh McGrady
Mononga
Powers Found Guilty Life Imprisonment Verdict in Goebel Case
Georgetown Ky Aug 19 12 jurors verdicts Powers guilty of conspiring to murder William Goebel. The panel fixed punishment at life in the state penitentiary. Foreman I G Stone announced the verdict after a brief deliberation. Powers smiled through the reading then prepared to appeal.
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Georgetown
Caleb Powers
William Goebel
Commonwealth
Franklin
Cantrill
Powers
Judge Cantrill
I. G. Stone
State Penitentiary
Taylor
Democratic Party
Courts of Justice
Old Geronimo to Marry in Guthrie Gossip
Guthrie Oklahoma August 20 reports say Geronimo the renowned Indian chief recently said to be insane is about to marry a youthful girl with a bank account of forty thousand dollars. The old warrior is reported to be in his usual health.
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Geronimo
Guthrie
O.T
German swimmer completes first nine mile Lake Winnebago crossing
Appleton Wisconsin August 20 Hans Hohl recently arrived from Germany swam nine miles across Lake Winnebago in five hours The feat marks the first time this distance has been completed in the lake by a swimmer from Germany or elsewhere prior records are not cited but the accomplishment is noted as historic for the region
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Appleton
Wis
Hans Hohl
Germany
Lake Winnebago
Panther Attack In Lookout Mountain Fight Leaves Man Near Death
Johnson, formerly with the Third Tennessee Infantry, was mauled by a female panther on Lookout Mountain while out with his dogs Monday. The beast clamped his throat and tore his neck and face before the dogs and a hunter killed it with a shotgun, leaving him gravely wounded and hovering between life and death.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Johnson
Third Tennessee Infantry
Lookout Mountain
Mr. Johnson
Ghost scene Turns Fatal Brick Incident in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on August 20 a mob frightened by a white sheet ghost scene gathered at 57th and Ludlow streets. Florence Almond, 15, was struck on the head by a brick thrown by a Black man in the crowd and died within minutes. The suspect remains at large.
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Philadelphia
Florence Almond
57Th
Ludlow
Woman Beatens Death Mystery In New York Flat
Woman aged 22 Catherine Scarf was beaten to death with a hammer in her second floor rooms at 674 Second Avenue between 7 pm and midnight Sunday. Her body found early Sunday morning by her brother who returned home after midnight. Police seek suspects in this sex crime and murder case.
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New York
Catherine Scarf
Second Avenue
Brother
Bullet in His Brain Attracts Surgeon Attention
Nashville Tenn August 19 A miner named John Wilson remains alive and conscious after a man shot him in the forehead at the mouth of a Tracy City mining company mine. The incident follows a dispute with a fellow employee a week ago.
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Nashville
Tenn
John Wilson
Wilson
Tracy City
Roberts Proclamation Threatens Death for Oath Breakers in Transvaal
In Pretoria on August 20 Lord Roberts issues a proclamation denouncing oath breakers and warning that future violations will incur death, imprisonment, or fines. Burghers in British-occupied districts who do not take the oath will be treated as prisoners of war and transported. Farms harboring enemy scouts face razing.
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Pretoria
Lord Roberts
Plans for World’s Fair fund resumption in St Louis
Work on the five million World’s Fair fund nears restart as Chairman D F Francis and William H Thompson study plans. Francis aims to sail for Paris around September 15 hoping to have the fund nearly complete by then.
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St. Louis
D. F. Francis
William H.thompson
Francis
Paris
Funeral of ex Senator Ingalls Held at Trinity Church
Ex Senator Ingalls received funeral services Sunday afternoon at Trinity Episcopal church in Atchison Kansas. The body was then interred in the family vault at Mt Vernon cemetery.
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Atchison, Kan
Ingalls
Trinity Episcopal Church
Mt. Vernon Cemetery
King of the Cowboys Dies in Providence Hospital
Washington Aug 20 Sergeant Buck Saylor famed as King of the Cowboys and a prominent Rough Rider died at Providence hospital from consumption linked to illness contracted during the Cuban campaign.
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Cowboys
Washington
Car Collision Kills Child in St Louis Intersection
On August 20 in St Louis a Sixth street car struck a barouche at Broadway and Jtascae street, killing Blanche Skelle aged 11 and injuring Herman Wilnebach and George Skelle. The crash highlights dangers at busy crossings and raises questions about streetcar safety measures.
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St. Louis
Broadway
Jtascaé Street
Blanche Skelle
Herman Wilnebach
George Skelle
Foiled Anarchist Conspiracy Tied to McKinley Plot
New York reports that secret service agents detained 14 alleged anarchists at the immigration detention prison after arrivals on Kaiser Wilhelm II. Naples circle planned simultaneous strikes on the president. Two detainees Marescu and Weida arrived Aug 3 and were found aboard in disguise.
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New York
Evening World
Washington
Secret Service
Natalie Marescu
Michil Weida
McKinley
Bureau of Immigration
United States
Naples
Maresica
Weida
Europe
France
Germany
England
Maresca
Cook
Secree
Bbs
Sean Gr Kere
Varsty
Hazen
Wilkie
Kaiser Wilhelm
Italy
Punishment for Bresci Sealed as Life Hard Labor
Rome August 19 Bresci the assassin of King Humbert faces a punishment deemed worse than death Italian law replaces the death penalty with ten years of solitary confinement in an underground iron funnel cell he will be starved of light and human contact and denied medical care after which he may be sent to hard labor unless insanity develops as in a prior case Passanante.
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Rome
Bresci
Humbert
Italy
Passanante
Arrests Linked to Bresci Case Spur London Report
The Rome correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that Maresca and Guida were arrested in New York after letters sent to Bresci’s lodging followed King Humbert's assassination. One letter dated July 25 from New York, signed Mabor, urged Bresci to act and claimed Maresca and Guida would aid President McKinley. Maresca is identified by Italian police as a fanatical anarchist.
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London
Rome
The
Daily Mail
Maresca
Guida
New York
Bresci
Humbert
Mabor
McKinley
Grasshopper Plague Strikes Kalamazoo Michigan
Kalamazoo residents report an unprecedented grasshopper infestation bogging houses and stores, halting meals at Poli restaurant, darkening the city as arc lights clog with insects, and forcing early store closures. A Chicago and Kalamazoo line train halted by a mile long swarm, crushed insects turning to pulp that slicked the rails.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Michigan
Cressy
Delton
Chicago
Two Giants Recruit at Columbus Barracks in Big Heights
Columbus Ohio Aug 19 two recruits at the Columbus barracks required war department permission to enlist before recruiting officers could accept them Washington granted the clearance The two men tower over six feet each with John Spivey from Hamilton Ohio at six foot five inches and enlisted in Cincinnati He is a laborer 24 years old The other recruit from Pittsburg Indiana stands six foot two Regulations ban enlistment of extreme heights The taller man could be a sharpshooter hidden from sight
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Columbus
Ohio
War Department
Army
Washington
John Spivey
Hamilton
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Ind
Courageous Collie Saves Boy From Streetcar
A collie on Finney Avenue saw a speeding streetcar bearing down on a young boy and, with two or three hounds by its side, grabbed the child's clothes in its teeth and dragged him off the track just as the car passed. The faithful dog saved the boy from harm in a dramatic street scene.
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Finney A
Queen Amelia Fires At Husband In Lisbon Scandal
A leaked Lisbon report says Queen Amelia of Portugal shot at her husband from close range during a summer residence episode. The queen pretended to depart to the capital, unveiling a maid of honor as the target. The bullet missed.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Amelia
Pointblank
Tragic Train Death Of Allen Nichols In East Alton
Allen Nichols a 20 year old from Nichols New York was struck and killed by a Big Four freight train in East Alton while trying to board the moving train. He fell between the cars and his body was cut in two at the hips but he managed to name his parents and address before dying.
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St. Louis
Allen Nichols
Nichols
N. Y
East Alton
N? Y
Dowie Sued for Damages in Chicago Suit
Chicago Aug 19 John Alexander Bowie sues for 50000 damages in superior court claiming his home was ruined and his happiness destroyed by the influence exerted by John Alexander Dowie over his wife Maggie Neilson a Chicago laborer in the case filed against Dowie and Maggie Neilson.
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Chicago
John Alexander Bowie
Abraham J. Neilson
John Alexander Dowie
Maggie Neilson
Engineer H Oki Heads for Japan via La Lorraine
On the French liner La Lorraine from Havre sails Mr. H. Oki chief engineer of construction of the Japanese navy. He has overseen the build of the cruiser Azuma at St Nazaire and is en route to Japan.
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New York
Havre
H. Oki
France
Azuma
St. Nazaire
Japan
Inquiry About the Anarchists Policy
New York August 20 officials consider a special court of inquiry or a special board of investigation to examine anarchist activities. Government authorities have not yet decided on a formal inquiry structure.
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New York
Lodge Davis Wed in Boston Ceremony
George Cabot Lodge son of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge married Matilda Freylinghuy ten Davis daughter of Judge John Davis of the court of claims in a Sunday ceremony in Boston.
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Boston
George Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge
Matilda Freylinghuyten Davis
John Davis
Court of Claims
Washington
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Girl Played
Ghost
Tennessée Miner
Lord Robert
United States Service
Dowie
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