Hectic Week in World News and Local Notes
A digest of global and regional happenings from the week includes labor strikes in Canada and San Francisco, political shifts in Manila and Pekin, Cuba’s Platt amendment acceptance, fierce firefights near Middlesburg, and local events such as tornado injuries in South Dakota and a Panama Canal era tone of industrial actions. Key names include Cailles, Loomis, and McPhial alongside organizations like Canandian Pacific, Newport shipyard, and the Washington legislature.
Surprised by Boers from Pretoria camp reverse noted
London dispatch reports Lord Kitchener’s telegram from Pretoria at 7:30 p m June 12 near Wolmansrust detailing a Boer attack that killed two officers and 16 men and wounded 41 others. Most prisoners were released. two pompos captured, and the incident blamed on poor picketing with broader implications for Australian troops.
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London
Laord Kitchener
Pretoria
Wolmansrust
Middleburg
Victoria Mounted
Eee
Beaston
Steenkoolaprait
Lord Kitchener
Dewet
Botha
Kruger
Daily Mail
Cape Town
Cecil Rhodes
Bulawayo
Japan's War on Rats in Tokyo and Empire
Reports from Yokohama and Tokio describe a rat outbreak prompting drastic measures. The imperial university faced plague bacilli experiments but rats escaped. Tokyo voted 30 000 in traps and offered 5 sen per rat. Authorities assure containment and a strong sanitary position despite cabinet disputes.
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Yokohama
Victoria
B. C
Tokio
Imperial University
Strike of trackmen in Canada disrupts wage talks
Vancouver June 18 Canadian Pacific trackmen in the eastern division plan to strike at 6 am over a 20 cent per day wage increase. Officials say granting the demand would cost about 400000 annually. Men are assigned to bridges and key track segments while trains are reportedly to run tomorrow as usual.
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Vancouver
B. C
Canadian Pacific
Rng
It Ia
California Train Wreck Near Rincon
A Muthern Pacific passenger train from San Francisco derailed near Rincon in Santa Cruz on June 15. Engineer James Stanley and Fireman Henry Coyle were seriously injured as locomotive tender and baggage car were badly smashed while the passenger car with 40 people remained on the track.
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California
Santa Cruz
Cal
Muthern Pacific
San Francisco
Rincon
James Stanley
Henry Coyle
iThe
Growth and Improvements Across Oregon Industries Today
News of commercial and financial happenings includes a new stone launder in Eugene, a Southern Pacific ticket office in Salem, and mining sales in Granite district for 18000 and 25000 dollars. Frosts killed fruit and grain, while taxes in Baker county reached about 60000 dollars. The Willamette River’s low water and a small steamer, Ruth, mark summer operations, with accidents and celebrations noted. Portland market reports cover wheat, flour, oats, barley, hops, wool, butter, poultry, potatoes, and meat prices.
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Eugene
Southern Pacific
Salem
Granite
Gray
Baker County
Willamette
Ruth
Portland
Walla Walla
Graham
Oregon
Wool — Valley
iOregon
Ile
Earl Russell Arrested for Bigamous Marriage in U S
London reports Earl Russell was arrested on a charge of bigamy after marrying Mollie Somerville in Nevada while still married to Mabel Scott. The case, heard at Bow Street, outlines prior marriage, elopement, and Reno license, with potential appeal to the House of Lords if convicted.
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London
Earl Russell
United States
Bow Street
Karl Russell
America
Mollie Somerville
George Cooke
Cumbernauld
Soteland
Earl
Mabel Scott
England
Somerville
Mollie Cooke
Nevada
Servant Girls Union to Organize Chicago Helpers
Chicago June 19. The Servant Girls Union initiative aims to organize thousands of women in homes across Chicago. Committees form immediately, wage scales to be set, an eight hour day with holiday and overtime pay planned, and weekly recreation time to be regulated. Strong allied female labor groups expected to join.
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Chicago
Woman's International Laber League
Chicago Federation of Labor
Ulee
Mormon agent seeks land concession for Yaqui settlement
James Cannon, a Mormon agent in Mexico City on June 19, seeks a government concession to settle 1,000 Mormons in Sonora along Yaqui country. He promises peace through friendly relations, and says if concession and land are granted a commissioner will survey Yaqui sentiment and a treaty or land purchase may follow.
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Mexico
Mexico City
James Cannon
Sonora
Cannon
Mormon Church
Indiana
Brazilian indemnity paid for mob burning Bajttat Chapel
A cablegram from U S Consul Bryan at Petropolis reports the Brazilian government has paid the indemnity demanded for the destruction by a mob of the Baptist Chapel in Nichtheroy province where the American Baptist mission is located.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Bryan
Petropolis
Bajttat Chapel
Nichtheroy
American Baptist Mission
Actress Anna Chapman Seriously Injured in Fall at Lyceum
In Cleveland on June 19 Mrs Anna Chapman of the Eugenie Blair dramatic company now at the Lyceum theater fell through a trap door and sustained a fractured skull. Her condition is reported serious.
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Clevlland
Anna Chapman
Eugenie Blair Dramatic Company
Lyceum Theater
Graves of Soldiers Decorated
On the anniversary of the siege of Tien Tsin the district held ceremonies to decorate the graves of soldiers from all nationalities with reverent honors and flags.
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Tien Tsin
Tien Tain
Breach widening sparks debate on Boer camps policy
In London June 19 the War Secretary Mr Brodrick reported 40 220 people in concentration camps along the Transvaal and Orange River colony with 68 men and women and 58 children in the Chase camp for May 24. The mortality announcement drew groans in Parliament as officials discussed freeing women and children. The vote on adjournment over Boer women and children policy split the Liberal party with a large abstention and criticism of concentrating civilians.
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London
House of Commons
Brodrick
Transvoal Andrange River
Chase
Trish
Broderick
Tro- UC Ce
House of Common
Lloyd
Henry Campbell Bannerman
Bannermann- Harcourt-Morley
Hous of
Conment
Boers Gain Strength Reported From Cape Colony
New York reports from London that English observers fear Boer recruits rise in the Cape Colony Dutch districts. Despite Chamberlain’s calm insistence war is merely smoldering, a prorogation of the Cape Colony constitution may be discussed in the Commons. Lawyers say only a parliamentary act could legally enforce it.
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New York
South Africa
London
Cape Colony
Mr. Chamberlain
House of Commons
Lord Miller
Boers Will Never Give Up Lecture Tour in Denver
Commandant W. D. Snyman of the South African republic lectures in Denver to raise funds for Boer prisoners. He says the South African struggle is a political war not based on race, and that Boers will fight while life remains. He notes wives, mothers, widows, and orphans suffer but believe in eventual victory.
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Denver
W. D. Snyman
South African Republic
South Africa
Snyman
Kitchener Reaches Bloemfontein After South Africa Action
London reports Lord Kitchener has not yet sent full details of the setback in the Steenkoelspruit area on June 12. Small South African actions continue. Scheerper's commando remains in position near Cape Colony as Kitchener moves toward Bloemfontein.
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Kitchner
London
Lord Kitchener
Victorian Rifles
General Benston
Steenkoelspruit
South Africa
Scheerper
Array
Cape Colony
Bloemfontein
Claims on Maine disaster sent to United States government
Madrid June 15. A cabinet council decided that any claims from American subjects over the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor should be addressed to the U S government. This follows the Treaty of Paris.
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Maine
Madrid
Havana Harbor
United States
Paris
Machinists In the South Vote Union Strike Action
A committee of machinists waited on Superintendent Symonda of the Plant system and demanded a nine hour day with ten hours pay. One hundred fifty men are employed in the Plant shops in Savannah. If no satisfactory reply is received by noon tomorrow, all union men in the shops will strike.
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China
Moran Bros
Seattle
Industrial Commission
Newport, R. L. Shipbuilding Company
Military Commission
Hunter
Philippine
Monmouth
Victoria Mounted Rifles
Middlesburg
Pekin
South Dakota
Umatilla
von Waldersee
Prince
Germany
Northfield
Harriman
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Lulu Prince-Kennedy
Eastern Street Air Lines
Forestry Bureau of the Philippines
Philippines
Leavenworth
Kannas
Fort Leavenworth
Tinois
San Francico
Port Royal
Oregon Agricultural College
Caillos
Yangtse
Donald McPhial
Washigton
Governmnt
Narorns
Forta Hawilton
Wadsworth
Japan
News OF
TA State
Roseburg
Fagen
Whitney Council
Columbia
Rogue River Mining & Milling Company
Foote Creek
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Lakeview Water Company
Lakeview
Mis Lordship
Ameri
House of Lords
Runsell
Servant Girls’ Union
Brazil
Liberal Party OF England
War Department
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