British Move Delayed At Rhenoster River In Transvaal
London reports Lord Roberts infantry advance slowed by a fordless Rhenoster with 40 foot banks. Pontoon bridges under construction as British crescent positions tighten near the Vaal. Boers retreat threatening rail lines north of Rhenoster amid a looming referendum on continuing the war.
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London
Lord Roberts
Rhenester
Kroonstad
Rhenoster
Ian Hamilton
Vaal
Lord Methuen
Vreedefort
Parys
Free
Pretoria
Lourenco Marques
Lydenburg
Transvaal
Thorough Reform In Cuban Posts And Related Items
Havana reports act ing director general of posts abolishes the solicitor's bureau and creates a law clerk and stenographer, saving 2700 annually as Gen Wood orders thorough island overhauls. Auditors examine treasury North American Trust Co and soon the custom house amid no fraud suspicions. Jeffries Sharkey fight set for August 25 with Al Smith as stakeholder and White as referee. Five men die in a boiler explosion at McFerrin's sawmill near Covington. Russia plans six Manchuria fortifications and a cop air mission led by Gen Sacharoff with eight officers to study defense. Chinese ministers in Washington and London ordered to stay in post for longer per Li Hung Chang's recommendation.
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Havana
Bristow
Solicitor’s Bureau
Gen. Wood
Island
Treasury
North American Trust Co
Custom House
Wood
New York
Jim Jeffries
Tom Sharkey
Sharkey
McCoy
Rublin
Jeffries
al Smith
Charlie White
St. Petersburg
May 'S
Manchuria
Sacharoff
Japan
Methodist General Conference Elects Western Agents
May 25 Chicago. Debates mark elections for church agents with Dr. Lewis Curts retiring in Western office. Samuel H. Pye and A. C. Jennings win Chicago and Cincinnati posts. Homer Eaton and George P. Mains retained for New York. Conference abolishes Epworth league secretary post and reviews benevolence secretary reforms amid heated discussions on race. Adjournment set for Tuesday noon.
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Chicago
Methodist General Conference
Lewis Curts
Samuel H. Pye
A. C. Jennings
Cincinnati
Homer Eaton
George P. Mains
New York
Epworth League
Sunday
Freedmen’s Aid
Southern Education Society
Ninde
Would-be lynchers foiled in Athens jail ruse
In Athens Ohio on May 25 a mob of about 500 attacked the jail seeking Richard Gardner the Negro charged with murdering Ethel Long. Sheriff Porter had moved Gardner to the courthouse. Judge Wood urged the crowd to let the law run its course. A five member committee was shown through the jail and found Gardner missing, but Gardner was in the courthouse handcuffed to the sheriff.
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Athens
Richard Gardner
Ethel Long
Porter
Court House
Wood
Gardner
Alaska civil government bill advances with Nome mining permits
Washington lawmakers spent eight hours on the Alaska civil government bill. The House adopted two key amendments, including authorizing the secretary of war to issue permits to excavate or dredge for gold below low-water Cape Nome. The chapter on arrest and bail in civil actions was struck out. The conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was adopted.
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Washington
House
Alaska
Secretary of War
Cape Nome
Senate
Conference
World’s Fair Measure Postponement Sought by St Louis Taxpayers
A May tele gram from St Louis to Speaker Henderson asks Congress to defer action on the world’s fair measure for ten days. The petition cites a mass meeting of city taxpayers and bears signatures of C E Richter as chairman and Clark ener Richeson as secretary. In Victoria B C the North ern Pacific liner Glenoble reports Russia’s ongoing aggression in Korea with a Russian warship firing on a Japanese vessel during maneuvers. casualties unknown.
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Washington
Henderson
St. Louis
House of Representatives
C. E. Richter
Carkener Richeson
Victoria
B. C
Glenoble
Russia
Korea
Hong Kong
Cumberland Presbyterian Assembly Adjoins Sine Die
The 71st general assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church adjourned sine die in Chattanooga after eight days and will reconvene at West Point Mississippi in 1901. Russian battleship Pobeda and cruiser Aurora launched in St. Petersburg with Emperor Nicholas present. The assembly in St Louis prepared a memorial to Congress urging a constitutional amendment to declare polygamy a crime.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
General Assembly
The
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
West Point
Miss
St. Petersburg
Pobeda
Aurora
Emperor Nicholas
St. Louis
Presbyterian General Assembly
Congress
Ees
Two Men Shot After Street Car Riots In St Louis
At 9 pm a street car halted by a mob in St Louis saw gunfire injure John S. Harding fatally or near death and seriously wound fellow motorman Donald Watts while a bystander was slightly hurt. Postmaster Plumhoff urged federal aid to protect mail cars as police fear disrupted polls during Saturday primaries.
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St. Louis
Union
Park
Compton Avenues
John S. Harding
Donald Watts
Plumhoff
United States
Resier
St. Louis Transit Co
Neely Charged With $65,000 Postal Fraud
Washington reports from Havana indicate Special Agents Seybolt and Williams accuse Neely of fraudulently accounting for stamps and funds totaling more than $65,000. Five counts allege misappropriation including $57,000 in stamps and funds, plus $1,500 and $300 entries. The case will be sent to the New York counsel.
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Washington
Havana
Seybolt and Williams
Neely
New York
Judge Morrow orders health board to show cause on Chinese liberty
San Francisco May 25 Judge Morrow directs the city board of health to show cause why an injunction should not restrain interference with Chinese residents freedom to leave the city. An embargo on Chinese and Japanese movement is under scrutiny to determine disease presence.
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San Francisco
Morrow
Board of Health
Indiana Round-Ups and Kentucky Pass-Through Plans
Indiana dispatch reports Gov Beckham of Kentucky may honor two requests from Indiana officials. Mount seeks return of a man wanted in Lawrence county, while Adjt Gore asks permission for Indiana soldiers to pass through Kentucky to Louisville for a Confederate reunion. Marion club hosts Taylor and Finley with fiery speeches. Evansville reports the identified body of Nora Kifer, murdered near Eberfield, with arrests expected soon. notes her prior appearance with a regional theatre troupe.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiade
Beckham
Kentucky
Mount
Lawrence County
Adjt
Gore
State House
Madison
National Guard
Louisville
W. 8. Taylor
Charles Finley
Taylor
Finley
Evansville
Nora Kifer
Eberfield
Brazil Electric Street Railway Sold to New Buyers
The Brazil Electric Street Railway Co. was sold for 33750 dollars to John C. Bryson J N Hal sted of Brazil and Frank Edwards of Indianapolis. The purchasers act as agents for Stone & Webster Boston men building the interurban line from this city to Brazil who also own the local street railway and electric lighting systems.
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Ierre Haute
Ind
Brazil Electric Street Railway Co
John C. Bryson
J. N. Halsted
Brazil
Frank Edwards
Indianapolis
Stone & Webster
Boston
Home Wrecked By an Explosion in Anderson
In Anderson Indiana shortly after midnight a natural gas explosion destroyed the Watkins residence. Mrs. Watkins died three hours later and three children were seriously injured while Duff Watkins was away. Leaking gas main suspected. In Indianapolis the iron and steel workers' scale talks made little progress as President Schaffer said completion is uncertain.
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Anderson
Ind
Duff Watkins
Middletown
Watkins
Indianapolis
Iron
Steel and Tin Plate
Schaffer
Lightning Kills 17-Year-Old Eva Hamilton in Kokomo Garden
In Kokomo Indiana on May 25 the Hamilton family Mr and Mrs Hamilton and two daughters were struck by lightning. Eva Hamilton aged 17 died instantly while her parents and sister survived. They were in the garden with no visible storm.
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Kokomo
Ind
John Hamilton
Widow Mrs May King Dies of Heart Disease at Supper Table
Terre Haute Indiana May 25 Mrs May King a 56 year old widow died at the supper table. Her daughter left the room for a moment and upon return found her mother with head resting on the table in death. Heart disease listed as the cause.
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Terre Haute
Ind
May King
Noblesville bids for Horace P. Biddle library collection
Noblesville submits a bid for the late Horace P. Biddle’s library of 8 000 volumes. An effort will be made to keep the books intact at his island home. Death at the age of 00 years. Marion notices report the death of Mrs. Anna McAdow aged 90 at her daughter’s home, Mrs. H D Reasoner wife of a bank president.
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Logansport
Ind
Noblesville
Horace P. Biddle
Biddle
Marion
Anna McAdow
H. D. Reasoner
First National Bank
Price McCormick & Co. Multimillion Dollar Brokerage Failure
New York May 25 Price McCormick & Co a leading brokerage firm with branch offices in about 30 cities failed with liabilities about 13 000 000 nearly all secured Assignees William J Curtis and William Nelson Cromwell stated creditors should hold their collateral to avoid losses The firm long of cotton amid a falling market and its suspension rattled the cotton market and prompted reassurances to creditors from the assignees.
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New York
Wm. J. Curtis
Wm. N. Cromwell
Cromwell
Theodore H. Price
William G. McCormick
R. G. M. Stewart-Wortley
Walter
W. Price
George Crocker
San Francisco
McCormick
Chicago
Mr. Stewart-Wortley
Adm. Schley
Crocker
Europe
Stewart-Wortley
Price, McCormick & Co
Nelson Cromwell
Price
McCormick &Co
Boxers Drill Openly in Pekin as Diplomatic Pressure Grows
In Shanghai on May 25 the Boxers movement spreads with high Manchu participation including imperial clan members. S de Cologan, Spanish minister and senior diplomat, demands immediate suppression from the Tsung Li Yamen warning of possible troop landings by foreign powers if unchecked. A Daily Mail dispatch from Tianjin cites Kao Lau Tsun’s May 44 massacre of native Catholics linked to influential local governor Li’s alleged pro Boxers stance.
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Shanghai
Pekin
S. de ‘Cologan
Offige
China
London
The
Daily Mail
Tien Tain
Kao
Lau Tsun
Pakatual
Pe Chi, Li
Cadet appointments raised to fifty under president
The number of cadet appointments allowed the president was increased from 30 to 50. Queen Victoria sent a gracious reply to President McKinley’s congratulations. A train of 21 cars carried 20 000 bushels of corn to famine relief in India. A Durban bubonic plague fatality is reported. Crump renominated for congress in Michigan. The Buttonwood mine strike in Pennsylvania remains off after resuming. Prussian bill taxing large stores may fail to gain government support.
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Victoria
McKinley
Topeka
Kan
India
Rossean R. Crump
West Bay City
Congress
Buttonwood Mine
Wilkesbarre
Digest of Thursday News In Brief
The army reorganization bill may fail this session. Gen Butler's force crossed the Vaal at Ingogo but is held at Laing's Neck as Boers entrench. Boers plan strong defense of Johannesburg amid British threat. Auditor Sweeney transfers state records to Coulter in Frankfort. De La Salle and Rita di Cascia saints canonized by Pope. Louisiana Exposition bill reported without recommendation. Alledged defaulter Neely faces charges of about 400000 embezzlement from Cuba post. Storm casualties in Astoria uncertain. several missing and three drowned. Peninsula Bank Williamsburg robbed. $10000 stolen by unknown robbers.
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Butler
Vaal River
Ingogo
Laing’s Neck
Johannesburg
Sweeney
State House
Frankfrot
Coulter
Jean Baptiste de la Salle
Order of Christain Brothers
Rita di Cascia
Pope
Rome
House
St. Louis
Cincinnati and Boston Play Rough Baseball Shootout
Cincinnati scored one run in the sixth and back-to-back innings to post a 6 2 win over Boston. Hahne and Wood handled batteries for Cincinnati with Emslie umpiring. Pittsburg beat Brooklyn 12 1 as Philippi and Zimmer led the offense. Hurst and St Louis umpired. Philadelphia edged another opponent 5 3 behind Powell and Criger with Maul and McFarland behind the plate.
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R.H.E
Cincinnati
Boston
Hahne
Philadelphia
Brooklyn i
SOF
Chicago
Vecceserreet
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati Aeaneerere
New York
Cnate
Markets in Cincinnati Reveals Varied Grain and Livestock Rates
Cincinnati markets report mixed grain prices with flour and spring varieties ranging from 2.95 to 3.90 per unit and wheat, corn, and oats on track. Live stock prices show hogs and cattle in narrow bands from about 4.60 to 5.25, with sheep and lambs yielding 3.75 to 5.75 and veal calves noted in lower ranges.
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Cincinnati
Lawsuit Claim Stems From Ladder Incident
William Lines accuses Willard Pritchett of assault with intent to kill after Pritchett allegedly jerked a 20 foot ladder from under him while painting a new tobacco factory. Nearby notes report Frank Pink opening a tobacco and cigar factory in Carrollton Kentucky and obituaries for Mrs. Albert Libbett and Albert Tichenor from Indiana.
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Logansport
Ind
William Lines
Willard Pritchett
Prichard
Rising, Sun, Ind
Frank Pink
Carrollton
Absinthe Prohibition Order Shocks French Barracks
Gen. Galliffet, minister of war, bans sale of absinthe and vermouth at camps and barracks. The decision follows concerns about alcoholism and insanity linked to drink among soldiers. De Galliffet's action cited alongside his famed bravery in wars and against unrest.
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Galliget
Cam
Strong
Ite Helle Beverages
Marquis de: Galliffet
Hery
de Galliffet
France
Mulhall
de Gall
Gen. DE Galliffer
Depth of Cyclones and Hurricanes From Bigelow Study
Prof F H Bigelow of the U S Weather Bureau reports ordinary cyclones moving west to east reach depths of two to three miles with diameters of hundreds of miles. In hurricanes the depth reaches five to six miles, with higher currents affecting surface activity. The findings adjust earlier ideas on atmospheric circulation. A Sedalia Mo firm death reveals a 30 year pattern of receipts and split money among members.
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F. H. Bigelow
United States Weather , Bureau
Bigelow
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