Roberts Still Silent as British Move on Pretoria
Dispatches indicate Lord Roberts guards the north of Johannesburg with one brigade at Johannesburg while six columns press toward Pretoria. Boers mass beyond Lichtenberg to meet General Hunter. Maribago junc with Hunter reported. Pretoria allegedly invested. burgomaster to surrender after formal demand. telegraph link to Lourenzo Marquez cut. reporters still travel by rail.
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London
Anne
Pretoria
Lord Roberts
Johannesburg
Lichtenberg
Hunter
Mahon
Maribago
Tourenzo Marquez
Krager
Otis on Native Soil, Proceeds to Washington
SAN FRANCISCO June 24 After five days in quarantine at Angel Island Major General E S Otis who arrived from Manila was allowed to land. Smallpox cases on the transport Meade caused the quarantine and vaccination for all aboard. Otis came on a steamer provided by General Shafter and was met by Surgeon Major Arthur and Captain Wilson. The party went to the Occidental hotel where Otis spent the afternoon receiving callers and preparing for travel east. The plan to receive him with full military honors was not carried out.
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Washington
Oneo
San Francisco
Angel Island
Otis
Manila
Meade
General Otis
General Shafter
Arthur
Wilson
Occidental Hotel
Foil the Train Robbers Near Price's Switch
A northbound Cannon Ball train on the International & Great Northern was held up near Price's switch sixty miles south of ST Louis. Express Messenger Rutherford and Baggageman Strong fought back while Engineer Rich halted the train. The robbers forced the crew to uncouple cars and attempted a larger theft before retreating. In a separate note, Washington doubts whether live stamps will be exhibited in Paris, with $1,200 borrowed for the exhibit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Post-Dispatch
Longview
Tex
International & Great Northern
Price
Love
Washington
United States
Paris
Captain Godfrey Killed in Filipino Conflict Action
Manila June 5 General Funston with twenty five men engaged fifty enemy east of San Miguel de Mayomo. Captain Geo. H. Godfrey of the Twenty second regiment and one private were killed. The enemy losses are not reported. Twenty five armed insurgents have surrendered at Calire island of Panay.
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Godfrey
Manila
Funston
San Miguel de Mayomo
Geo. li. Godfrey
Calire
Panay
Republics Clans to Meet in Lincoln Convention
Omaha June 5 President Charles E Winter of the Nebraska Republican League has called a state convention to meet in Lincoln on June 28 to elect officers and select delegates to the National Republican league convention to be held at St Paul Minnesota July 17 and 19.
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Omaha
Neb
Charles E. Winter
Nebraska Republican League
Lincoln
National Republican League
St. Paul
Minn
New Capitol at Santa Fe Dedicated in Grand Ceremony
New Mexico’s new capitol was dedicated this afternoon in Santa Fe with large crowds. The city bustled as houses and streets were decorated and a grand military and civic pageant was reviewed from the capital steps by Governor Otero. The building replaces the one destroyed by incendiaries in 1891 and features classic architecture of sandstone granite and pressed yellow brick.
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Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico
Oterio
Post Office Bribery Case Details Cash Theft Scheme
Havana reports Acting Postmaster Bristow discloses C F Neely stole about 17 000 monthly from postal funds in May 1899 totaling 31 812 95 with half diverted for personal use. Examiner Rathbone previously ordered checks, but plan was stalled until May 15 this year. Bristow estimates total theft between 80 000 and 100 000, not affecting surcharge statements totaling 411 000.
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Neely
Receipra
Havana
Estes G. Rathbone
Rathbone
Leatherer and Sullivan
Bureau of Finance
Attack on Tien Tsun by Boxers Sparks War Fears
Tien Tsun reports Boxers five miles off with an imminent attack. German marines and Belgian engineers arrive as fears rise. Eleven missing according to the French consul, while refugees and relief parties report clashes near Pao Ting Fu and Tull with casualties among locals and foreign troops.
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Tien ‘Sin
Tien Tsin
Pao Ting Fu
Tull
Blensky
Hamilton
China Island
Western G A R En camps for one cent rate
Western lines fail to agree on pooling Grand Army business between Chicago and St Paul and Chicago and Kansas City. Wisconsin Central directs per mile rate publicity and will push a one cent rate across its territory, with other lines notified to cut rates and start contracting.
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Western G. A. R
Chicago
Western Lines
St. Paul
Kansas City
Leavenworth
Atchison and St. Joseph
Wisconsin Central
McLeod
Western Passenger Association
Milwaukee hosts grand General Federation convention kickoff
Ideal weather opens the biennial General Federation of Women's Clubs meeting in Milwaukee. Local hosts extend gracious hospitality to all delegates, with Nebraska's delegation among those welcomed warmly as the event promises to be highly memorable and engaging.
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Milwaukee
Wis
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Nebraska
Five Killed in Rail Wreck Near Hamilton Ohio
A Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis fast freight engine derailed west of Hamilton. Eleven stock cars wrecked. Killed were trainmen Timothy Mahoney, David Starkey, Ambrose Smith and two unidentified riding youths. Loss estimated at about $5,000. Also reported: Mrs. John Sherman, aged 72, died at Mansfield Ohio after long illness. widow of former Judge Stewart of this place.
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Hamilton, O
Cincinnati, Hamilton
John Sherman
Mansfield
Margaret Cecilia Stewart
Judge Stewart
Sherman
Rebels Close to Panama Near Jamaica Report
June 5 Kingston dispatch says the British steamer Orinoco reports rebels were within six miles of Panama on May 31. Government troops prepared. British consul and families evacuated to Tobago. Colombian soldiers left Colon to reinforce Panama, 280 soldiers sent from Savannilla by a French steamer also to Panama.
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Panama
Kingston
Jamaica
Columbia
Tobago
Colon
Savanailla
Pursuit of Aguinaldo Ends With Capture or Death
Major Mareh and a detachment of the Thirty-third Regiment overtake Aguinaldo’s party near Lao Gat Luzon. They kill or wound an officer believed to be Aguinaldo, capture two followers, and seize the insurgents’ camp and papers including proclamations. The pursuit continues toward Aparri with no conclusive trace of Aguinaldo.
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Mareh
Bnila
Vigan
Luzon
Manila
Aguinaldo
Lao Gat
Laboagan
Major March
la Gat
Philippines
Beveridge
Chico
Tiao
Aparri
Pretoria News Consenus Reports No Direct Late News
London June 4 There is no direct up to date news from Pretoria after Thursday evening. General French's cavalry were at Irene eight miles south of Pretoria with firing heard there. Lord Roberts' message notes secondary operations elsewhere and the Johannesburg situation dated Orange Grove near the city. Correspondents with Roberts have not received reliable lines on Johannesburg after its occupation.
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London
Pretoria
French
Irene
Lord Roberts
Johannesburg
Orange Grove
Richest jack strike reported at Kansan zinc mine
GALENA Kan June 3 What is represented to be the richest jack strike ever made is reported from one of the properties of the Combination Zinc Mining company's properties At a dept of sixty two feet drillers on the Sadie Yell shaft ran into 25 per cent jack and are said to have gone through tan feet solid.
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Kansan
Galena
Kan
Combination Zinc Mining Company
As Dept
Sadie Yell
Neely extradition papers signed by governor
New York June 4 Governor Ho Roosevelt signed the Neely extradition papers and they were forwarded to Washington tonight.
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Neely
Hoosevelt
Waskington
India's Deplorable Famine Scenes From Bombay Districts
Louis Klepsch of New York, publisher of the Christian Herald, reports from Bombay on famine conditions. He cites cholera and smallpox sweeping camps, rising relief numbers, and brutal death rates in Godhera, Dohad, and Ahmedabad. He portrays widespread death, sanitation collapse, and degraded outlook amid government effort and monsoon concerns.
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Louis Kiepsch
Sccnes
England
Bombay
Louis Klepsch
New York
The
Christian Herald
Bombay’ Presidency
Gujerrat
Barolda
Godhera
Dohad
Bombay Presidency
March to Gates of Pekin Forces Gather at Tientsin
A special train carried Americans seven officers and fifty six men British three officers and seventy two Italians three officers and thirty nine French three officers and seventy two Russians four officers and seventy one Japanese two officers and twenty four men with five quick firing guns. Rumor says foreign troops will meet at the first gate of the Chinese capital outside the wall. Promotions in the volunteer army include Major Lloyd M. Brett to lieutenant colonel Captain O C P Stivers to major First Lieutenant Benjamin Stark Jr to captain Second Lieutenant Wilford Twyman to first lieutenant and Sergeant D W Strong to second lieutenant.
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Tientsin
Pekin
Thirty-first Infantry
Lloyd M. Brett
O'C. P. Stivers
Benjamin Stark, Jr
Wilford Twyman
D. W. Strong
Thirty-ffth Infantry
Dynamite Explosion Ends Car Line Riot in St Louis
In St Louis on June 4 a small riot halted a streetcar on the Grove line at Twenty eighth and Calhoun as strike sympathizers threw rocks. An unknown man shot from the car window, the bullet lodging in Peter Frank a 16 year old bystander in his father’s doorway. Police dispersed the crowd and Frank was taken to hospital where doctors say his wound will prove fatal.
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ST. Louis
Lower Grove
Twenty-eighth
Calhoun Streets
Peter Frank
Young Frank
Kruger Near the Border
Lorenzio Marquez reports from Machadedorp near halfway between Pretoria and the Portuguese frontier that President Kuger remains at the rail line between the Transvaal capital and Delagoa Bay. Boer commands totaling about 10 000 men hold the position and hills around Pretoria with another large force at Bronkhurst s Spruit about fifty miles from Pretoria on the rail line to Delagoa Bay.
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Kruger
Lourenzo Marquez
Kuger
Machadedorp
Pretoria
Transvaal
Delagoa Bay
Bronkhurst
Spruit
Boer Envoys Arrive in Cleveland With City Reception
Boer envoys reach Cleveland from Buffalo to a large reception by citizens and a marching band. They will speak at a main meeting tomorrow evening at Gray's Armory after arriving at 31 oclock tonight.
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Bor Bivers
Clevelund
Cleveland
Buffalo
Gray's Armory
Taint Wreets at Linn- Lima Ohio Train Disaster
A Lake Erie & Western freight east of Sandusky City derailed after a driving wheel tire came off. The wreck crushed fireman Enoch Bowsher and head brakeman J W Puttell, killing them. Engineer Harry Bell suffered a broken leg and serious internal injuries. The report notes both victims are dead here.
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Taint Wreets
Linn- Lima
Lake Erie & Western Road
Sandusky City
Enoch
Bowsher
J. W. Puttell
Harry Bell
Hell
Senator Hoar Moves in Habitual Recital of Actions
Senator Hoar begins with a ritualized sequence in his speeches, touching his throat, adjusting his waistcoat, fiddling with his watch chain, and shaking his cuffs before addressing the chamber. Adna Adams Treat of Denver, Colorado, claims the title of oldest Mason, having joined in February 1823. he is now 103 and reportedly vigorous.
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Senator Hoar
Adna Adams Treat
Denver
Colo
Better Blood Better Health Better Blood Better Health
A garbled OCR style summary mentions military cloth made from wood pulp, canal engineering between Lake Superior and Grand Forks, a Brooklyn death of Arthur Rehan aged 38, Daly road companies, a Vienna editor to Paris via automobile and flying machine, Lompse California mustard farming, San Francisco injunction on Chinese health measures, Capron widow Red Cross work, and a German torpedo flotilla heading to Rotterdam with weather and relief figures.
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Arthur Rehan
Auda Rehan
Oliver Doud Byron
Brooklyn
N. Y
Augustin Daly
Milk Tickets and Microbes in Oshkosh Action
Health Commissioner Wilkie tightens milk ticket rules in Oshkosh, ordering dealers to use B and ticket only once and to destroy after use to curb disease spread. The move signals a public health push against contaminated dairy practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkie
Oshkosh
Studied as He Vorent and Confederate Youth Leader
Congressman John M. Allen of Mississippi studied during the war era while serving as a Confederate lad. He kept a pocket Latin dictionary, wired his Latin composition at every camp fire, and later entered Cumberland University after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Allen
Mississippi
Cumberland University
Union Carbide Calcium Carbide Ad in Omaha
Nebraska agents for Union Carbide advertise calcium carbide for acetylene gas. Contact Pacific Storage and Warehouse Co at 912 314 Jones St in Omaha for orders and supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Union Carbide
Pacific Storage and Warehouse Co
Jones St
Omaha
Neb
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Glenwood Opinion
EaTan
Rsnen
Mins County National Bank
Glenwood
Iowa
Hensagint
M. Burrinaton
A.D. Frixce
Cashier
A. Frenen
Ass't Cishler
Blim
Burrinaton A BR
C. It
Andrews Ss
H. Wooprury
Ninseuxven —O
Europe
H. Dewitt
Onice
Skillicarn & Co
W. M. Plimpton
Towa
Omee
Rysoket State
Qaguerees Corner
Wael Streets
West
Sid
DE. L. B. Bacon
Pacific Junction, IA
Pf, M. Shriver
Strchan - and - Mechanical
Dyer Block
Court House Square
Gienwood
Lowa
E. G. Woodrow
Donnelly Bros. Grocery
W.S. Morrow, D.D.S
Jamison's
Canting Co
Dan Lugsch
Jawest
East Side Square
Glenwyood
E. G. Devitt &Co
WM. Seillicorn & CO
Howell
Sve
Leaalia
Prue
Thea
Ed Hess
Tiehnt
Stata
Blanhahd
Golo
Pewinv
Draswinte
Roberts
Englard
Krugerts
Randle
Trabant
Club Women
Pierre
S. A. Cochrane
Sully County
Pearl Township
C. D
Della Vox
Lusana
York
Della May Pox
Justice McAdam
Supreme Court
Wave Crest
Astoria
L. i
William WW. Fox
Austin Flint, Jr
Edward D. Fisher
India
Gates OF Pekin
Hood
America
Engings
Lake Superior
Grand Forks
N. D
Vienna
Santa Barbara County
California
Cal
Morrow
Irs
Capron
Cuba
Red Cross
Rotterdam
Kedleston
Mysore
Tin Ndh Nwa
Auuldoey
W.N.U
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