Gen Chaffee’s Brief Dispatch Signals Peking Advance Near Ho-Shi-Wu
Gen Chaffee’s three word message announces his arrival at Ho-Shi-Wu just 33 miles from Peking as the Relief Column advances six miles daily. The move leaves Yang-Tsun and Lang-Fang behind and shows open communication back to Che-Foo amid expectations of near Peking.
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Washington
China
Chaffee
War Department
Ho-Shi-Wu
Peking
Yang-T'sun
Yang-Vysun
Lang- Fang
Yang-Tsun
Ho-Si- Wu
Imperial City
Noot
Adjt
Corbin
Ho-Si-Wu
Che-Foo
Peitsang
Pei River
Desperate Situation at Peking as Roving Forces Advance
Cable dispatches report Sir Claude MacDonald describing a desperate British position at Peking with food exhausted in ten days and 200 European women and children in the legation. Shanghai and Chaffee notes place the forces roughly 40 miles from Peking, casting doubt on rapid Allied advance.
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London
Canton
Daily Telegraph
Claude MacDonald
Peking
Tien-Tsin
Cawnpore
Shanghai
Daily Express
Telegraph Operators Gain Wage Rise and Shorter Hours
Pittsburgh reports that after talks with Baltimore and Ohio railroad officials the Order of Railway Telegraphers secured recognition and a wage readjustment. The measure will raise pay and cut hours for the more than 2000 B&O operators, with some increases of five to ten dollars weekly. The German Statesman notes Baron Von Stummberg, a leading conservative, is ill with stomach cancer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio
Nitro glycerin blast at Guthwail plant injures two men
An explosion east of Montpelier Indiana at the Guthwail nitroglycerin factory injures two men and a team. Claude Jones loses a leg. Albert Hayes suffers severe shock. About 1,500 quarts of nitro were involved as acid overheated and ignited, glass windows shattered for miles.
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Muncie
Ind
Montpelier
Guthwail
Claude Jones
Albert Hayes
Hotel Fire In Logansport Injures Guests
A light machine exploded in Wan d reis European Hotel causing a blaze that drove Wandrei to safety with minor burns while his wife fainted and then collapsed on the stairs. She is in St. Josephs Hospital in critical condition. Wandrei estimates losses around 3000 dollars with no insurance. The building is owned by C F Sargent Nannie Fansler and J C Dewenter.
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Logansport
Ind
Wandrei
St. Joseph’s Hospital
C. F. Sargent
Nannie Fansler
J. C. Dewenter
Sweeney Drowns Bathing At Columbus Indiana
Indianapolis Aug 14 Joseph I Sweeney aged 20 was drowned while bathing at Columbus Ind His father Rev Zach Sweeney former consul general to Constantinople under President Harrison and present state fish commissioner of Indiana His grandfather is Joseph I Irwin a prominent banker.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Joseph I. Sweeney
Columbus
Zach Sweeney
Constantinople
Harrison
Indiana
Joseph I. Irwin
Storm damages East Main street block in Greenfield
During a heavy wind and rainstorm in Greenfield Indiana the row of pillars supporting a new brick business block on East Main street was undermined and collapsed wrecking the entire front. Signs and awnings were blown down as well.
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Greenfield
Ind
East Main Street
Independent phone line extends toward Economy
In Hagerstown Indiana on August 14 the new independent telephone company reports rapid progress. The line is being extended to Economy and other points will be connected as soon as arrangements are completed.
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Hagerstown
Ind
Independent Telephone Company
Dowager Empress Plans Departure From Peking
Berlin reports the empress dowager intends to leave Peking and move her court before Allied forces reach the capital. Lu Hai Nouan, the Chinese minister, urged her and the emperor to stay and await international forces. German officials say Allied advance may not have begun amid the rainy season.
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Berlin
Peking
Lu Hai Nouan
Stolen Child Sparks Kenosha Abduction Alarm
In Kenosha Wisconsin on August 14 Hazel Patterson eleven years old was abducted from her mother Mrs William Inloney amid a family quarrel over the child from a former marriage. Abductors fled in a carriage waiting nearby, prompting widespread excitement as authorities probe the case. Hazel’s mother had moved to the city three years ago from Mansfield Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenosha
Wis
Hazel Patterson
William Inloney
Mansfield
Carpenters Withdraw From Chicago Building Trades Council
The carpenters, the strongest craft union in the Chicago Building Trades Council, decide to withdraw. Most members likely return to work within two weeks as a major rift in the central union grows alongside months of dispute with contractors.
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Chicago
The
Carpenters
Chicago Building Trades Council
Building Trades
Bremen steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse sets record Atlantic crossing
The North German Lloyd ship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse capt. Engelbart completed the Sandy Hook to Cherbourg voyage in 5 days 19 hours 44 minutes, covering 3,184 knots at an average speed of 22.75 knots.
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Bremen
Engelbart
New York
Sandy Hook
Cherburg
Magazine Exploded in Shanghai Powder Magazine
A powder magazine in Shanghai exploded today causing unknown damage. The enclosure is closed to foreigners and no injuries are confirmed in the limited report.
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Shanghai
National third party convention gathers in Indianapolis Aug 14 15
Delegates begin arriving for an anti imperialist and third party meeting in Indianapolis. The platform calls for Cuba Philippines and Porto Rico independence and a single gold standard while opposing both major parties. Isaac H Klein of New York is secretary and Louis Ehrich of Colorado Springs presides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Gold Democratic Committee
National Party
Louis FR. Ehrich
Colorado Springs
Colo
Isaac H. Klein
New York
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Cuba
Philippine Islands
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Commercial Club Building
Anti-Imperialist League to Open Meeting in Tomlinson Hall
The Anti-Imperialist League congress will convene Wednesday morning in Tomlinson Hall with Senator Henderson of Missouri presiding. The first session has no set program and will feature short speeches on the best course. Gov. Boutwell opposes a third ticket and endorsing Bryan and Stevenson. strong anti imperialism resolutions are favored followed by adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Congress of the
Anti-Imperialist League
Tomlinson Hall
Henderson
Missouri
Boutwell
Bryan
Stevenson
White Star Cymric Suffers Fire At Sea In Heavy Loss
The Cymric arrived after a 36 hour fire in the forward hold of the cargo during the Atlantic crossing. Hold No 1 was flooded, water damaged general merchandise, and agents notified consignees to cover their pro rata share of the loss.
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New York
White Star
Cymrec
Atlantic
John Lee
White Star Line
Consignees
Ammunition Arrives for Arethusa Ahead of China Voyage
Eight car loads of ammunition arrived at League Island navy yard and will be placed on board the water carrying steamer Arethusa, now under orders to sail for China. The bulk of the supply came from Norfolk.
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Philadelphia
League Island Navy Yard
Arethusa
China
Norfolk
Casualties in China Report From Gen Chaffee
War Department releases casualty list from Che Foo detailing enlisted men killed at Yang Tsun and heat prostrations. Wounded include numerous soldiers with varied injuries. Burials occurred at Yang Tsun while wounded were sent to the hospital at Tien-Tsin.
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Chaffee
War Department
Washington
Gen
Che-Foo
Yang-Tsun
W. E. Metzler
Robert C. Kerr
Wyatt G. Hicks
Samuel Stafford
Corp
Roy Bergen
Laurence M. Googins
Roy Land Persy
Wm. Webb
Frank R. Lang
Michael O’brien
Daniel J. O’connor
Joseph P. Fritsch
Wm. Eseld
Albert W. Fitzpatrick
Frank Knoll
Harry C. Huston
Patrick Curran
Ismal S. Tyjor
Ralph W. Adams
Charles Johnson
Frank R. Kiddoo
Louis A. Forgerel
Wm. F. Maloney
Frank C. Albright
James Aiken
Adam Houce
George E. Vale
Ernest Gibson
James H. Hurst
Clint W. Graham
Jos. E. Legoir
Wm. Miller
Lee Owens
Jeremiah Jd. Toomey
Lefer J. Alley
Willie Lawrence
Philip Manderson
James Rice
Robert E. Snell
Ray 8. Roberts
George D. Gardner
Wm. J. Emmett
Henry Young
Alfred M. Mesmer
Ross Chambling
Dwight M. Fuller
Frank R. Jackson
Oran A. Kemper
Chas. E. Foster
Henry H. Hurst
Paschal Y. Smith
James P. O’dowd
Joseph Oulette
John Wagner
John B. Beheld
Robert L. Tippie
Patrick Shea
Alonzo J. Babb
Jacob Schnoebel
John Mulligan
Norman A. Pruitt
Andrew Bromm
Benjamin N. Boyle
Yang- Tsun
Tien-Tsin
Death of a Noted Chess Player William Steinitz
Announced death Sunday at Manhattan State Hospital of William Steinitz born in Prague May 18 1837. Since 1862 he pursued chess as a profession and held the world championship following the 1872 London tournament. He defeated many challengers until 1894 when Emanuel Lasker beat him and his mind declined thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Manhattan State Hospital
William Steinitz
Prague
London
Vienna
Union Pacific Train Robbers Identified as James and Tom Jones
Authorities link the Missouri and Texas desperadoes to last week’s Union Pacific robbery near Goocland Kansas. A reward totals 3,000 in Missouri and 590 in Texas for the Jones brothers, dead or alive, with Springfield reports matching two Dallas county raised gunmen now believed involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goocland
Kan
Union Pacific
Here
James
Tom Jones
Missouri
Texas
Jones Brothers
Springfield
Dallas County
Double Tragedy on Monroe Prairie Involving Lanier Family
In Aberdeen Mississippi on August 14 a fatal clash on the public road left Homer Bittle Walter Bittle and Will Lanier dead. J S Lanier and his sons George and Jeff joined Will Lanier in the confrontation after an earlier quarrel between the Lanier and Bittle families. The second meeting erupted into violence.
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Aberdeen
Miss
Homer
Walter Bittle
Will Lanier
Monroe Prairie
J. S. Lanier
George
Jeff
Laniers
Bittles
Severe heat strikes Central Kansas amid withering crops
Salina Kansas records a scorching 112 degree day as Central Kansas suffers drought damage to late corn. heat also harms vegetation. In New York, Phillips H. Morgan, 75, former US minister to Mexico, dies from cancer after a Louisiana political career and recent law practice in New York City.
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Salina
Kas
Kansas
New York
Phillips H. Morgan
United States
Mexico
Mr. Morgan
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
New York City
Jeffries Hurt His Ankle In Training Mishap
Champion James J Jeffries wrenched an ankle after a bicycle accident at Loch Arbour near Asbury Park New Jersey. The injury was painful but not dangerous and did not endanger his training schedule.
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New York
Jas. J. Jeffries
Loch Arbor
Asbury Park
N. J
Chilean Congress Approves 2.5 Million for Car Cargo
The Chilean congress voted 2.5 million in Chilean currency to finance a car cargo, with most purchases planned in the United States. The measure signals significant American goods procurement for Chile's transportation needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santiago de Chili
The
Chilian Congress
United States
Aguinaldo Guards Inner Circle as Amnesty Surrenders Seekers
Manila sources publish a letter claiming Aguinaldo avoids the amnesty by ordering guerrilla bands. The note from Blac-No-Bato says he stays briefly in each place and admits none but close friends. Gen. Pio del Pilar, recently surrendered, says he aims to be a good American citizen and would raise a native Filipino regiment for China service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pio del Pilar
Washington
Manila
War Department
Aguinaldo
Blac-No-Bato
San Pedro Macati
China
Baltimore Strikers Spark Street Violence At Locust Point
Disturbances flare as 2,000 union stevedores strike. A streetcar carrying non union black workers is bombarded with bricks at Locust Point and later a mob pelts a group leaving the Baltimore & Ohio docks. A pistol fires five shots wounding three people. shooter fled and was not arrested.
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Baltimore
Locust Point
Baltimore & Ohio
Hy Presser
Joseph Bensch
Arthur Raynier
Death Sentence Awaited for Ferrell After Express Messenger Killing
Charles R. H. Ferrell, jailed for the Lane murder, is visited by his father To bias Ferrell in a highly emotional cell scene. The father pleads and Ferrell apologizes crying that he would not have done the act if he had thought of his mother. Ferrell predicts execution and asks his mother be informed he will meet her in heaven. The father says the family remains stricken, with Mrs. Ferrell sick and cared for by a doctor.
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Messenger Lane
Charles R. H. Ferrell
Express Messenger Lane
Tobias Ferrell
Steubenville
Motor Car Held Up Near Wabash Crossing
Two masked men robbed the conductor and motorman aboard a motor car of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway near the Wabash crossing at Sixth street and Thirteenth avenue in Council Bluffs. The robbers took a gold watch and about $50 in cash and fled into the darkness.
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Omaha
Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Co
Wabash Crossing
Sixth Street
Thirteenth Avenue
Council Bluffs
Extradition Refused for Neely and War News From Around the World
Judge Lacombe of the United States circuit court in New York refused to sign the writ of extradition for Charles F. W. Neely. In the battle of Yung-Tsun Russian troops fired on Americans by mistake wounding ten before the error was corrected. Georgetown Kentucky’s sheriff is ordered to summon jurors for the Youtsey murder case. Fifteen killed and forty wounded in a Rome railway wreck after mourners returned from King Humbert’s funeral. A collision off Cape Vincent during French fleet maneuvers sank the torpedo destroyer Franmee with about fifty lives lost. Caleb Powers trial testimony is complete and jurors rode by special train to Frankfort to view the Goebel murder scene. Allied forces reportedly within twenty miles of Peking and expected to reach the city on the eighteenth. Transport Sumner with Gen Barry and a battalion of the Fifteenth Infantry arrives at Nagasaki en route to Taku aboard the Indiana.
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Lacombe
United States Circuit Court
New York
Charles F. W. Neely
Yung-T'sun
Georgetown
Youtsey
Senator Goebel
Rome
King Humbert
Cape Vincent
Brennus
Franmee
Caleb Powers
Frankfort
Goebel
Peking
Summcer
Barry
15Th Infantry
Nagasaki
Taku
Indiana
Cyclist, U.S. Attorney Van Valkenburg Dies at 45
Frank B. Van Valkenburg a noted Milwaukee cyclist and former assistant United States attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin under the Cleveland administration died suddenly in Milwaukee at age 45 from possible hemorrhage of the brain.
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Milwaukee
Frank B. van Valkenburgh
van Valkenburgh
United States
Wisconsin
Cleveland
Lord Salisbury Leaves for Health Resort in Vosges
Lord Salisbury, advised by his doctors, travels to Schlucht in the Vosges for a month of rest. He will oversee foreign affairs remotely via telegraph and messengers during his absence.
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London
Lord Salisbury
Schlucht
The
Vosges
Winnipeg Faces Typhoid Fever Epidemic Threat
Winnipeg and surrounding province report a rising typhoid fever outbreak. Sickening cases arrive daily at Winnipeg General Hospital as authorities warn of a widening health emergency.
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Winnipeg
Man
Winnipeg General Hospital
National Game Innings Box Scores Shared
Baseball summaries show Cincinnati at Brooklyn Philadelphia St Louis and Detroit style box scores with innings by inning runs and final tallies. Batteries listed include Phillips Kahoe Powell Robinson OConnor Carrick Bowerman Callahan Chance Garvin Donahue Nichols Sullivan with umpires Emstie Terry O Day Hurst.
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RAE Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Vphillips
New York
Phillips
O’connor
Carrick
Bowerman
O'Day
Rhe
Chicago
Boston
Callahan
Chance
Willis
Clarke
Hurst
Garvin
Donahue
Nichols
Sullivan
Markets Report From Cincinnati And Chicago
The Cincinnati market notes flour prices across many grades and grains with specific ranges for spring and winter flour, No 2 red wheat, corn and oats on track, and live stock bids for hogs cattle sheep and calves. Chicago Wheat and Corn prices are listed with August and September futures alongside unsettled prices.
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Cincinnati
Chicago
Fashion notes on purses and fobs in varied forms
The article surveys evolving handbag trends including horn back alligator purses, Mexican carving, and pyrographic effects, with prices from three dollars. It notes a revival of long necklaces, shifting away from short styles, and a persistent appeal of masculine fobs with leather to 14 karat gold materials, plus a trend toward antique coin reproductions.
World of facts and figures from the era
A roundup of diverse statistics including English men's height averaging five feet eight and three quarters inches, Kentucky post offices names, hog population vs people, North Carolina child labor decline, Chicago fire escapes per workers, Pittsburgh river traffic, garlic consumption by foreigners, St Joseph banana cultivation, Lookout Mountain memorial logistics, Santa Clara apricot orchards largest in the world, and county total apricot acreage near San Jose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiddville
Right Angle
Log Lick
Kentucky
North Carolina
Chicago
Pittsburgh
United States
St. Joseph
Conservatory
New York Peace Memorial
Lookout Mountain
Santa Clara County
San Jose
Seasonal Laughs and Outdated Wedding Jokes
A collection of topical quips from newspapers about society, fairs, weddings, and weather. Jokes reference Paris fair crowds, sleepless men at calls, rice at weddings, melting ice cream, and Chinese politics as punchlines. Shared by readers in Atchison Globe and Indianapolis Journal style columns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Indianapolis Journal
Tommy
Mia
Bobby
Indianapolis Journal. “Do You Suppose It Is True,” Asked Mrs. Snaggs
China
Aguinaldo
Dom Paul
Mr. Snagga
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
The Plant World Seed Size Impacts Acreage and Fungus Discovery
From Berlin Dr Frank reports tobacco seeds are tiny with a theta thimbleful able to raise a full acre. He also names a new wheat root destroyer fungus killer of the wheat stalk. Ohio flora discussion noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
Berlin
Ohio
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Ho-Si-Wun
Foon
Rlin
Wind Wrecks
Antiimperialist League
Philllips H. Morgan
Jeffries
Joseph Philpot
Frank Craig
Nodaway
Philpot
City Hospital
Bac
Frank B. van Valkenburg
St. Louis
Chicago Sane
Aenae
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