British dispatches recount Peitsang and Yang Tsun actions
From Che Foo dated August 11 General Gazelee reports Japanese forces driving the enemy from Peitsang in gallant style and describes the Yang Tsun fight where American allies helped form a thrust to seize the railway embankment. Nearly three miles were advanced under heavy shell and rifle fire with about fifty killed.
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London
Che Foo
Gazelee
Peitsang
Yang Tsun
Pei Ho
Pei-Ilo
A Terrible Mistake at Yangtsung Engagement
A Che Foo special from Shanghai reports a costly error during the Yangtsung action. Russian artillery shelled American troops before the mistake was found, causing many casualties. The Fourteenth joined the assault on Chinese trenches, then occupied a Chinese position as Chinese fled. A distant Russian battery fired into the repositioned Americans until alerted.
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Che Foo
Shanghai
Yangtsung
Fire Rages On Cymric Cargo Hold After Atlantic Crossing
The White Star liner Cymric reports a cargo fire in forward hold No 1 after arriving in New York. The blaze burned for thirty six hours, flooding the hold and spreading water to other compartments, with heavy cargo losses and pro rata charges to consignees.
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White Star
Cymric
New York
Atlantic
John Lee
White Star Line
Consignees
Nitro-Glycerine Explosion At Garthwait Factory
A major blast occurred at the Garthwait nitro glycerine factory two miles east of Montpelier Indiana injuring workers Albert Hayes and a Mr Jones who escaped with bruises. Five hundred quarts exploded causing extensive damage to Montpelier business houses dwellings and many plate glass windows and chimneys. The cause remains unknown.
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Garthwait
Montpelier
Ind
Albert Hayes
Mr. Jones
Deutschland Sets Atlantic Speed Record On Eastward Run
The Hamburg American line steamer Deutschland, sailing from New York August 8 and arriving at Plymouth August 14, established a new eastward passage record and the fastest time for any ocean steamer. It achieved a five days eleven hours and forty five minutes voyage, with a peak single day of 652 knots and an average speed of 23.32 knots.
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Hamburg-American Line
New York
Hamburg
Plymouth
Carpenters Withdraw from Chicago Building Trades Council
The carpenters, the strongest union in the Chicago Building Trades Council, decide to pull out of the council and most members are expected back at work within two weeks. This marks the second major split in the central organization of the building trades, which have battled with contractors for months.
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Carpenters
Chicago Building Trades Council
Building Trades Workmen
Chicago
Contractors’ Council
Death of Special Agent John M. Morton on St Paul Island
Telegram announces the death on July 16 of Special Agent John M. Morton, son of former Indiana Governor Oliver P. Morton, at St Paul Island in the Bering Sea. He was buried with honors on the island.
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Gage
St. Paul Island
Bering Sea
John M. Morton
Oliver P. Morton
Indiana
Tragic Jamestown Family Murder Suicide Shocks Town
At Jamestown Ohio A G Binghamp ton killed his wife and his son in law James Bradley then took his own life The killings stem from family troubles lingering disputes and distress in the household remains a grisly local tragedy
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Jamestown
Ohio
A. G. Binghampton
James Bradley
Hawaiian Courts Opened by U S Courts in Hawaii
Secretary James Wilson predicts dollar wheat and wheat corn due to shortage and large crop. United States Courts in Hawaii open in Honolulu with Judge N M Estes presiding.
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James Wilson
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
Hawaii
Honolulu
N. M. Estes
England’s Chief Justice Dies at 67
Baron Russell of Killowen, England’s chief justice, dies after an operation for gastric catarrh. Born in 1833 in Newry Ireland, he rose from modest beginnings to the pinnacle of English law, serving as a self-made jurist with a decade more service expected.
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Baron Russell
Killowen
England
Baron Russell of
Arthur Russell
Newry
Seafield House
Rostrevor
Ireland
Trinity College
Dublin
Belfast
Lincoln's Inn
Colleges Must Federate Say Small Colleges Should Unite
President William J. Harper of the University of Chicago foresees a major readjustment in U S education driven by federation among universities small colleges and high schools He argues for closer relations better classification similar admission and graduation standards and varied types to preserve individual institutional responsibility and cooperation beyond mere papers and resolutions.
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Harper
William J. Harper
University of Chicago
Warper
Curbing Love by injunction in Cleveland court
Miss Agnes Smith a young seamstress filed a common pleas petition against Junius W Cobb a prominent Cleveland bookseller seeking an injunction to stop his amorous advances. Judge Cissette granted a temporary order as Cobb allegedly phoned ten to twelve times daily and lingered near her home until two in the morning.
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Cleveland
Common Pleas Court
Agnes Smith
Junius W. Cobb
Item
Burrows Brothers Company
Boy With Winchester Foils Sheriff In Car Theft
In Magdalena New Mexico a pair of youths broke into a freight car and were spotted. One fled while Fred Barnett stayed in the doorway with a Winchester and ordered the sheriff to leave. The posse later surrounded the car and captured the juvenile desperado.
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Magdalena
Fred Barnett
Desperado
Death in Prison Cell Linked to Counterfeiting Charge
Paul Jansen, held in East Rutherford North Ohio, hanged himself in his Edson County jail cell by twisting his coat into a rope and using the bars for strangulation. The incident follows his arrest on counterfeiting charges three weeks earlier. The Palestine Texas trial for the Henderson County lynching case yielded a third conviction and life sentence for W B Brooks, while the Humphreys case remains unresolved.
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Paul Jansen
East Rutherford
N. O
Edson County
Palestine
Texas
James Humphreys
Henderson County
W. B. Brooks
Funeral Turmoil Sparks Panic at Humberts March
During the late king’s funeral procession at Itume a panic injured many. Fearing an assassination attempt on Victor Emmanuel, princes surrounded him with drawn weapons. The scene disrupted the cortege and left numerous bystanders hurt.
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Humbert
Itume
Victor Emmanuel
Boer Plot Discovered in Pretoria Targets British Officers
A Boer plot uncovered in Pretoria aimed to kill all British officers and capture Lord Roberts. Ringleaders described as prominent leaders within the faction.
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Pretoria
Lord Roberts
Toyal
Counterfeit Ring Busted In Chicago Detected By Secret Service
United States secret service agents and Chicago detectives raided a house and found a plant of counterfeiters. Axel Morks his wife Winifred Morks and Thomas Kelly alias Jones were arrested with spurious money and letters showing confederates nationwide. The operation turned $2 bills into $10 notes and $1 into $5 notes as seven months ago from Minneapolis.
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United States Secret Service
Frank Kubicki
Patrick Nolan
Chicago
Kalas
Porter
Axel Morks
Winifred Morks
Thomas Kelly
Jones
Minneapolis
Dun's Review of Trade Notes Cautious Speculation and Investment Rise
R G Dun & Co reports cautious speculation with rising investment holdings and steady money market despite political hesitations. Chinese market loss hits coarse brown cottons. other grades less affected. Weekly failures: 7 in U S, 23 in Canada. In Columbus, former express messenger Charles Lane shot dead. train safe blown, $45,000 stolen.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
United States
Canada
Lives Lost at Janesville Collision on Milwaukee Road
A Milwaukee road passenger train leaving Janesville collided with a switch engine pulling five coal cars. Engineer Burt Schlatter of Janesville and fireman Gus A. Rondrath were killed.
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Janesville
Milwaukee
Milwaukee Road
Burt Schlatter
Gus A. Rondrath
Destroyer Sinks After Collision Off Cape St. Vincent
A collision during French fleet maneuvers near Cape St. Vincent caused the battleship Brennus to collide with the torpedo-boat Frame. The Frame sank instantly with 56 crew aboard. 14 survivors reported. In the U.S. there was a grade crossing tragedy near Slatington, Pa, killing 15 instantly and injuring 10. a Lehigh and New England passenger train struck an omnibus carrying 28 people.
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Cape St. Vincent
Brennus
Des Frame
Slatington
Lehigh and New England Railroad
Robbery in New York Woman Loses Diamond Earring
Mrs. Bessie Krulewitch wife of a prominent New York real estate dealer was attacked on a street car a diamond ear ring valued at 700 dollars was torn from her ear by a robber who jumped from the car into the crowd.
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New York
Bessie Krulewitch
la New York
Wills Estate Gift Shocks Local Friend Inheritance Mix
The will of Nathan H. Knapp of St. Louis leaves his entire estate to Mrs. Lina Graf with 35 to the testator's daughter. The widow Turner and her six month old child leapt from a moving Southern railway train at forty miles per hour. Both mother and child are reported fatally injured. A posse of two train robbers was cornered near Goodland Kansas. one died in a house fire and another was shot. A tornado damaged New Rochelle with $40,000 in expected losses. An ex-employer confessed to robbing an express car and killing a messenger near Columbus to pay for his wedding. Four people died in a lightning strike near New York as they sheltered under a tree. Holbrook Normal College in Knoxville burned, with about $30,000 insured for $18,000 loss.
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Lina Graf
Nathan Hy. Knapp
St. Louis
Graf
New Anniston
Ann
Turner
Southern Railway
Tarner
neekLoge
Col
Goodland
Nan
Lavish Gifts to His Bride Worth Half a Million
Cleveland society is astonished by William B. Leeds giving Mrs. Nannie Stewart Worthington jewelry and art on their marriage. Estimates put the gifts at more than $500,000, surpassing any similar display by prominent American families.
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William B. Leeds
Cleveland Society
Nannie Stewart Worthington
Mrs. Leeds
Astors
Vanderbilts
Goulds
Wells Fargo captures train robber 40 miles from Sonora
Former bandits fatally wound each other after a Wells Fargo Express catch. Bud Newman, who aided in the capture, dies during the operation while Bill Taylor, one of four Santa Fe train robbers from October 1898, is captured. Newman had turned state's evidence.
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Wells-Fargo Express Company
Sonora
Texas
Bill Taylor
Santa Fe
Freman
Taylor
Bud Newman
Newman
Fire Devastates Chicago Spring Company Plant
Fire discovered at 3 am tore through the second story of the Tuthill Spring Company plant in Chicago. Property owner S. D. Kimbark faces about 10 000 dollars in building damage while machinery and stock, valued around 25 000 dollars, are nearly a total loss.
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Chicago Spring Company
Tuthill Spring Company
Chicago
S. D. Kimbark
Creston Mother Tells of Lethal Laudanum Acts
Mrs. Mary B. Scales recently released from the asylum administered laudanum to her 2 year old daughter causing death. She attempted to poison her 6 year old son who fled and alerted others. She then drank a fatal dose and died.
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Mary B. Scales
Creston
Tobacco Warehouses Bring 1 500 000 at Newport Auction
The Cincinnati Seat Tobacco Warehouse Company's property in Ohio Kentucky and Tennessee sold at court auction. James C. Ernst awarded the property to W. E. Hutton for 1 100 000. The sale consolidates assets across three states with the result reflecting a strong market condition.
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Newport
Cincinnati Seaf Tobacco Warehouse Company
James C. Ernst
W. E. Hutton
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Markets Report Lists Regional Price Ranges Across Commodities
Midwest and Northeast cities show cattle hogs and sheep trading across multiple grades with quotes for wheat corn oats rye and dairy. Notable figures include Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Toledo and Buffalo markets with varying ranges for cattle hogs and grain prices and creamery butter.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Chaice
New York
Market notes speak of midsummer dullness and cautious gains
New York markets show subdued activity with no major shifts expected before mid next month. Chicago reports modest wheat gains due to rains in Europe and ongoing droughts in the Dakotas and Minnesota, while notes on spring wheat losses and corn prospects temper optimism. Kansas remains the primary supply source for now.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Chicago
Europe
National Agricultural Bureau
Dakotas
Minnesota
Kansas
Camndry
United Kingdom
Allies Fire on Americans in Yangtse Battle Causes Heavy Losses
A dispatch from Yiong-tsun via Chefoo and Shanghai reports a four hour night engagement in which the Fourteenth United States Infantry fought under darkness mistaken for Chinese by Russian and British artillery. Ten Americans killed and fifty five wounded. ten wounded Britons and ten Russians including a colonel. Chinese forces around 20,000.
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Yiong-tsun
Che Foe
Shanghai
Yangtsun
Fourteenth
United States
Kills Friend to Wed and Robs Express Car
Ex Adams Express worker Ferrell confessed to shooting Charles Lane and robbing the Panhandle express car near Milford Center Ohio to fund an upcoming wedding. He was arrested with his fiancée Miss Lillian Costello in Columbus. Lane was found dead aboard the Pennsylvania Express after leaving Cincinnati.
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Adams Express Company
Wis
Charles HK. HL. Ferret
Rour Denal
Charles Lane
AH Express
Panhandle
Ear Milford Center
Ohio
Ferrell
Lillian Costello
Columbus
Miss Costello
Adams Expreva Company
Pennsylvania Express
Cincinnati
Lane
Ohio Capital City
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