British Advance Near Transvaal Border Amid Boer Uncertainty
British forces under Lord Roberts rapidly push toward the Transvaal with 5000 troops already north of the Vaal River. Boers retreat south of the river as Hamilton links with Roberts and French cavalry reconnoiters fords. News from Pretoria and Transvaal is scarce amid strict censorship and rumors of internal Boer quarrels.
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Lord Roberts
Pretoria
London
Wredeford
Hamilton
Viljoen
Vaal
French
War Office
Transvaal
Bennett Burleigh
Daily Telegraph
Vredefort
Vaal River
Erste Geluk
Lourenco Marques
Becket
Kreuz
Klinke
Schutter
Johannnesburg
Delagoa
Krueger
Lydenburg
Johannesburg
Carrington
Rhodesia
Mafeking
Peoria Overture at Presbyterian General Assembly
St Louis May 26 The session’s main feature was a revival of the Peoria issue with new commissioners proposing two sons for the number on standing committees. Action will be taken on amendments before adjournment as reports dominated the session. York May 26 Mild market activity and renewed concerns followed McCormick & Co as failures rose while May contracts fell amid uncertainty.
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St. Louis
Theresbyterian General Assembly
Peoria
York
Pacific Times
McCormick & Co
Thésf
Two Men Arrested in Indiana Girl Murder Case
Evansville Indiana May 26 two men were arrested in connection with Nora Kifer’s murder whose body was found in Pigeon creek weighted down with a stone. Jasper B Keith is held four miles from Elderfield while William Clark of Ebberfield is detained as investigators assess his link to the crime.
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Evansville
Ind
Nora Kifer
Pigeon Creek
Qone
Jasper
Keith
Elderfield
William Clark
Ebberfield
Clark
Nora
Chicago
Miners Satisfied After UMWA District 11 Scale Change
Terre Haute Indiana May 26 The executive board of District No 11 United Mine Workers settles the mining scale division after a two day session A machine miners delegation presented cases The April convention displeasure led to a new division effective immediately Wages rise on run of mine base except loaders cut from 28 263 cents and 2 cent ton cut on screened coal base The new division gains miners approval
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Terre Haute
Ind
Politics Led to Murder in Indiana Primary Fallout
Florence Indiana May 26 William Patterson was shot and killed by Ted Carver after returns from the Switzerland county Republican primary. Patterson taunted Carver over defeat for sheriff and Carver fired hitting Patterson in the head. Patterson died hours later. Carver surrendered at Vevay and faces preliminary examination there.
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Florence
Ind
Wm. Patterson
Ted Carver
Carver
Switzerland County
Patterson
Guying Carver
Vevay
Buckskin Bill performer fined after crowd shooting
Terre Haute Indiana May 26 Elmer Mendenhall of the Buckskin Bill Wild West Co shot into a crowd injuring nine persons. He was fined five dollars and costs on an assault and battery charge after the prosecutor withdrew the original charge. Victims are recovering though one or two eye injuries still threaten sight.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Elmer Mendenhall
Buckskin Bill Wild West Co
Mendenhall
Protests Over Serum Inoculation Reach Washington
Japanese envoy Nabeshima and the Chinese government protest compulsory plague serum inoculation for Japanese and Chinese in San Francisco while insisting the policy be universal. The matter is referred to the Surgeon General, with expected relief from quarantine rigor.
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Washington
Keiziro Nabeshima
San Francisco
United States
Marine Hospital Service
Dynamiters Sentenced in Welland Canal Plot
Karl Dullmann, John Walsh, and John Nolin were convicted in Welland Ontario of attempting to wreck lock 24 of the Welland canal with dynamite. Walsh and Nolin placed two valises with dynamite and fuses. Dullmann guided from Niagara Falls. They received life sentences at Kingston penitentiary. motive alleged by crown to be Clan na Gael.
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Welland
Ont
Karl Dullmann
John Walsh
John Nolin
Dublin
Ireland
Washington
D. C
Richmond
Welland Canal
Kkingston
Walsh
Nolin
Dullman
Niagara Falls
Clan Na Gael
Unknown priest leaps to death at Niagara Falls
At Niagara Falls May 26 an unidentified priest from New York allegedly leaped into the rapids after a staged scene. He descended the elevator, posed for a photo, stood on a rock, waved farewell, and shouted good by before vanishing into the rushing water. The man ordered the photos sent to M. J. O'Donnell of New York City.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
New York City
M. J. O'Donnell
Boer Envoys Plan Visiting Baltimore to Boston Tour
The Boer envoys Fischer Wessels and Wolmarans say they will visit Baltimore Philadelphia Providence and Boston next week. They cannot meet everyone who requests greetings but thank supporters in the United States and hope to extend invites to middle states if possible.
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Washington
Messrs. Fischer
Wessels
Wolmorans
United States
Europe
America
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Providence
Boston
Middle States
Methodist Conference Returns Most Officers for Quadrennial
Chicago May 26 The Methodist general conference elected to serve during the next four years most secretaries and assistant secretaries of benevolences and editors of church publications with few exceptions. The group will address the state of the church issues on card playing theater going and other amusements amid a lively anticipated debate. The majority report seeks removal of the discipline text to advisory status while the minority favors no action. Prominent debaters are expected to speak.
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Chicago
Methodist General Conference
The
Freedmen’s Aid and Southern Education Society
Missionary Society
Central and Western Christian Advocates
Pattison
Pennsylvania
Mount stands by extradition action on Finley
Gov. Mount, returning to Indianapolis from St. Louis, said he has no intention of changing his mind regarding honoring the requisition for the extradition of Charles Finley.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Mount
St. Louis
Charles Finley
United States Prepares Action Over Boxer Rebellion Crisis
Washington reports the U S government will act against the Boxer society in China with warships and possibly troops if needed Minister Conger has been told to demand prompt suppression and protection for Americans and property in China, as Pekin faces rising pressures and foreign intervention looms.
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Washington
United States
China
Conger
State Department
Pekin
Chinese clash leaves colonel and 70 men dead or wounded
A Pekin battle report says a Chinese cavalry force was attacked by Boxers with heavy losses including a colonel and 70 casualties. Li Hung Chang is confirmed viceroy in Canton while Tan Chun Lin is ordered to stay in Pekin awaiting new assignment.
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Li Hung Chang
Pekin
Canton
Tan Chun Lin
Jealous Chicago man tries to kill stepfather in Toledo
Chas Bartley a Chicago real estate dealer fired at his stepfather R A Bartley during dinner at Grand Avenue residence. The shots missed. both men grappled as neighbors and housekeeper intervened. Bartley was arrested and later released on bail amid threats to the grocer’s life.
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Chicago
Toledo
Chas. Bartley
Kh. A. Bartley
Grand Avenue
R. A. Bartley
Young Bartley
F. E. Gleason
Central Station
Emergency river and harbor bill seeks Senate approval
A river and harbor bill totaling 250000 dollars advanced to the Senate. Other items include the death of Prince William of Hesse in Berlin and boxing results from Chicago where Jack O'Brien defeated Young Mahoney in six rounds. Minor league player Knepper loaned to Minneapolis from St. Louis. District politics in Tennessee nominate F C Reeves against Brownlow. Lima oil prices fall with North Lima at 101 and South Lima Indiana at 96. Weekly U S business failures total 167.
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Senate
Prince William of Hesse
Grand Duke
Ernest Louis
Berlin
Jack O’brien
Mahoney
Chicago
O'Brien
Knepper
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Democrats
First Tennessee
F. C. Reeves
Johnson City
Congress
Brownlow
Lima
North Lima
South Lima
Indiana
War News Briefs and Crimes in Friday’s Dispatch
Russia mobilizes against Javan as war rumors swirl. A Dover Minnesota bank vault is blown open with $4500 stolen. Lord Roberts advances near Pretoria as Boer forces retreat toward the Vaal. Philadelphia baritone Giuseppe Del Puente dies at sixty from apoplexy. A Spaulding line streetcar blast in St Louis fails to injure anyone.
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Pretoria
Lord Roberts
Vredefort Road
Prospect
Signor
Giuseppe del Puente
Philadelphia
Botha
Rhenoster
Vaal
Spaulding
Traction Co
St. Louis
Shots Exchanged on Jefferson Avenue Car Ride
A crowd attacked a Jefferson avenue trolley car in St Louis with about 190 shots fired. Patrolman Peter Wells was wounded in the left armpit. two men allegedly shot were not found. Other items note navy deaths in Manila and local mill resumption in Anniston.
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St. Louis
Jefferson Avenue
Peter Wells
St. Louis & Suburban Railway Co
Union target mills push to sign new scale
Leaders of the Amalgamated Association say they will organize several large mills when the new scale is signed. They plan to bring the Braddock and Homestead plants of the Carnegie Company into line.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Braddock ‘Ang ‘Homestead
Carnegie Co
Sultana Survivor William Buchanan Dies at 61
William Buchanan aged 61 died suddenly at his home in Moore's Hill Indiana on May 26. He was a survivor of the Sultana steamboat disaster of 1863 which sank in the Mississippi River while transporting about 2 000 Union soldiers. He was among the heaviest men in the county.
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Washington
Navy Department
Wm. P. Elliott
Manila
Pennsylvania
Navy
Moore's Hill
Ind
Wiliam Buchanan
Mississippi River
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Gen. Wilson
Secretary of War
McDonald
Peoria Overtures
Presbyterian General Assembly
Conection
Slrays
Surgeon General
St. Andrew's Church
W. J. Steward
Edward &. Leonard
City of Mexico
Daily Express
Georgetown
British Guiana
Potara
Chicagoa
Russia
Javan
Bank of Dover
Minn
Lieut. Eliott
Anniston
Ala
Southern Car and Foundry Co
New York
Joe Gans
Cal Hawkins
California
Broadway Athletic Club
Hull
House Committee On Military Affairs
Sultana Survivor
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