Congress approves funds for Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Washington items note the House agreed to the Senate amendment for a 5 million dollar appropriation to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. A Senate panel passed timber sale and use rights for nearby residents on public lands and other measures, with adjournment pending.
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House
Senate
St. Louis
Secretary of the Interior
John Allen
Mississippi
Upele
Allen
McLaurin
Trinidad
Glenood Springs
Colorado
Denver
Reimree Wyoming
Yellowstone Park
Torrey Regiment
Congress
Worth
Sena
Hale
M Frye
Fry
Kempff Dispatches On Tien Tain Crisis In June Cable
Washington reports Admiral Kempff's telegrams detailing a tense crisis in Tien Tsin and Pekin. Fifty six landing to protect American interests with China’s consent, other nations coordinating naval forces. Nine hundred Marines ashore, twenty five warships, railway cut, expectation of further action to protect lives and property.
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Tien Tain
Washington
Kempff
McCalla
Helena
Tien-Tsin-Pekin
Admiral Kempf
Tung
China
Hay
Conger
Pekin
Mr. Conger
Mob Attacks Women and Girls in St Louis Riot
A mob of women and boys stripped Lena Kaenter and attacked two other girls after accusing teachers and blocking streetcar riders. An organizer led 800 in a line car charge, but police dispersed the crowd with no serious injuries reported. Three girls were sentenced to two years in reform school for an assault on Pauline Hensel, and a saloonkeeper faced a warrant for aiding the mob.
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St. Louis
Lena Kaenter
California Avenue
Mount Pleasant
Rose Fanning
Joseph Alfred
Southern Electric Line
Annie Swez
Annie Klasek
Mary Tritina
Mies
Pauline Hensel
Reform School
Clark
Court of Criminal Correction
Schumacher
Henzel
Wheat Advances as Prices Jump on Rain News
New York June 8 A sensational wheat advance pushed prices up 24 to 25 cents per bushel as outside buyers from crop damaged areas and foreign houses supported gains. July wheat rose from 75 to 77 1/2 cents, closing around 74 1/4 cents. Cotton trading reached about 5 million bushels, the heaviest in a year.
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New York
Northwest
Vanderbilt stock petersed up and notable 1900 events
Telegraph II reports the Vanderbilts laying up Burlington stock. Stephen Crane dies in London after long illness. Two women win Republican convention delegates from Utah and Idaho. Three men killed by a train near Laurel Hill Long Island. Kentucky delegates host guests aboard the battleship Kentucky as Hon. Harry Weisinger presents a $6,000 silver service. Dr. Richard Salter Storrs dies aged 79. Public debt shows May 31 1900 debt reduction via bond redemptions.
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Stephen Crane
London
Crane
Utah
Idaho
Laurel Hill
Long Island
Matthew Clark
Daniel Halpin
Patrick Ryan
Kentucky
Harry Weisinger
Richard Salter Storrs
Church of the Pilgrims
Brooklyn
Storrs
Home Missionary Society
Rio Janeiro
Rosalina
Maria
William H. Mooers
Battery D
Third Artillery
New York
Frederick M. Mooers
Washington
Mollohauer
Doscher
General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland
United Presbyterian Body
General Assembly
Harrison
Philadelphia
D. W. Blaine
Kansas
Kansas Wheat Belt
Blaine
Kansas City Board of Trade
Negro Exhibit for Paris From Atlanta University
A second negro exhibit from Atlanta University was sent to the Paris Exposition. It presents a social study of Georgia’s blacks, noting population growth, land ownership, and education gains. The display, compiled mainly by Dr. Du Bois and Atlanta graduates, covers migration, conjugal ship, race amalgamation, and Georgia’s “black laws.”
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Atlanta, Ga
Atlanta (Ga
Paris
Atlanta Papers
Georgia
Dr. du Bois
Atlanta University
Chicago News
Live Spring Daisies at Orphan Asylum Window
A Chicago Chronicle description of a window display at St Vincent Orphan Asylum on La Salle and Superior, showing a row of bobbing orphan heads in bright dresses, viewed by a religious caretaker with singing and playful children inside, portraying a cheerful charitable scene.
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Orphan Asylum
la Salle Avenue
Superior Street
St. Vincent
Chicago Chronicle
When the Town Wakes Up Tremont News farmers busy
Farmers are very busy in the fields this week making the town dull with trade mainly in the evenings. The Tremont Illinois report notes the slow daytime activity while markets pick up after sundown.
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Rocky Mountain States
Lentz
Ohio
Torrey Cavalry
Adelbert Hay
Pretoria
United States
Thenglish
Fort Iall
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Lands
Root
MacArthur
Manila
Wheeler
United States Army
West Point
Valry
Nator Shoup
Old Fort Hall
Flynn
Klahoma
Comon
John Sherman
Shermain
Whit
K Street
Sherman
Congressional Appropriations
Allison
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Cannon
House Committee On Appropriations
Spain
Treasury Department
Treasury
Kansas City
Building Trades Council
Convention Hall
Builders’ Club
Plumbers’ Union
Michigan
Supreme Court
Robert van Wyck
Greater New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Union Pacific
Old Hospital Fund
Abbott
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