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Newspaper
Lebanon Daily Reporter
Location
Lebanon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1900
Page
1
Readable catalog line items show live goods and styles arriving. Heavy wool art squares and curtains offered at reduced sale prices with multiple pieces and fabrics including lace curtains ginghams lawns and organ dies for wholesale closeouts.
War dispatches from Lourenco Marques report tangled claims as Boer and British forces clash near Pretoria and Johannesburg. British setbacks and alleged Boer advances mix with censored messages as authorities withhold full details, while a London telegram notes unease and shifting positions.
Washington reports the Senate after a long debate approved a Cuba extradition bill allowing punishment under Cuban law. The final deficiency appropriation passed, while the House upheld the Littlefield anti trust amendment with one vote against it. Conference reports on appropriations loom as sessions wrap up with adjournment targeted next Wednesday.
Manila June 4 The United States transport Hancock arrived with the Philippine Commission. Judge Taft led the group ashore and to the palace where Gen MacArthur greeted them. The party will seek dwellings on land while awaiting a formal policy statement. rumores in Hong Kong suggest no control until September.
Six men and two Indies among refugees from Pao Ting Wu have reached Tien Tsin with nine still missing. Mounted cossicks search for the missing and to rush aid to Yan Liu Ching. Reports in Pekin claim two missionaries from Yeu Ching were killed or missing, part of a group attacked by seven hundred boxers while fleeing. Shanghai reports foresee mounting northern tensions.
In Havana authorities insist Rathbone must remain until postal fraud investigations conclude. Officials cite new facts tying them to postal cases and vow restraint, while continuing secret examination. In St Louis a riot near 12th and Calhoun ends with 11 year old Peter Frank shot fatally during a rock throwing crowd.
In Newmarket Ireland on June 4 police disrupted a Nationalist gathering of about 200 in Market Square after the Proclamation prohibiting the meeting was delivered. James Christopher Wynn MP for North Cork and B Crean MP for Ossory division addressed the crowd before dispersing as police arrived.
The Kansas wheat crop is set to be the largest in state history as farmers prepare to harvest next week. Secretary Coburn of the state board of agriculture says the crop will be heavy with an estimated 4,205,818 acres sown and an average yield of about 14 bushels per acre. He notes the winter wheat panel stands at 4,205,818 acres, with projections of even larger yields.
A Lake Erie and Western eastbound freight derailed eighteen miles before Sandusky after a driving wheel flew off. Fireman Bowsbermal Heid and J. W. Purteil were killed. Engineer Harry Bell sustained a broken leg and serious internal injuries. Also reports on Capitol police reforms and world trade shares are noted in brief.
Barolda describes widespread death and suffering from famine plagues in Bombay presidency. He cites 10 000 relief-station arrivals daily, 3000 cholera deaths in four days at Godhera, 90 percent hospital death rates, and bodies in fields ditches and near cattle. He alleges official inefficiency and predicts worse as monsoon approaches.
Kingster Jam. June 4 The British steamer Orinoco says rebels were within six miles of Panama on May 1. Government troops prepared for action. British consul and families fled to Tobago for safety. Colombian soldiers left Colon for Panama gate. A French steamer brought 28 soldiers from Savannilla to Panama. The U S warship Maching was at Colon and ordered to land marines if the city was threatened.
The census enumeration now totals 62 431 nationwide with Pennsylvania at 4676 and New York at 4492. Alaska reports only two and Nevada 53. Papers signed in New York on June 4 by Roosevelt related to the Neely extradition have been sent to Washington.
Ciibe and Hesulta standings show no scheduled games yesterday as teams paused play. No results or scores entered.
The forecast notes rising sun and moon phase with periods of showers and warmer conditions in the northeast. It mentions expected patterns for tonight into tomorrow with lingering showers and increasing warmth in the northeast sector.
June 4 at Hebron Ind a new anti saloon league formed with George C Gregg ex representative as president and A W Barnes editor of The Hebron News as secretary amid renewed temperance efforts. Reports from nearby towns note arrests robberies drownings and a jury trial in the Fuller case with varied local incidents and a mysterious Lake Shore engineer death.
In Kianaville Indiana JanesA tyesses son of Michael McGraw was knocked down by a passing wagon while playing in the street Saturday and was killed. A separate report notes a 24 year old clerk named Charton Payne found dead in bed at a store Sunday morning. authorities say he was shot in the head, apparently by a firearm, with no further details available.
A garbled 19th century style clipping mentions Jaba Chek Reapath and a ginger federation in Milwacker, plus railway car repairers strike at Bantaly. It notes a deputy J. W. Bowey of the United Mine Workers and a wedding involving Hairy Gelade Ids May Cockrell Column 0. Adovie. It references a man killed 196 miles away and a suspected lynching tied to a bank robbery spree in Se evecare Matueeae with multiple participants.
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